Hi all,

I have released a new hack to both my subscribed members and vBulletin.org simultaneously.

This is the Lite version of my commercial product - Tab and Link Manager 4.

This hack gives you an easy way to add custom tabs, links and submenu links to the end of the NavBar. This hack has been stable since I wrote it in November 2009 and does exactly what it says on the tin. The first release of the commercial version was actually based on this version with the addition of the impex feature (which has been removed again before being released here as a Lite version).

This hack will not allow you any control over the already existing default tabs, links and submenu links added by vBulletin (Classic or Publishing Suite) nor any other third-party add-on that adds it's own tabs, links and submenu links.

Tab and Link Manager Lite offers you the following functionality:
  • Add/Edit/Delete a tab.
  • Add/Edit/Delete a link.
  • Add/Edit/Delete a submenu link.
  • Tabs, links and submenu links can be individually controlled by usergroup permissions.
  • Tabs, links or submenu links will not be viewable to users not in an authorised usergroup.
  • You can change the display order for individual tabs, links and submenu links.
The commercial version Tab and Link Manager 4 offers you the following additional functionality not available in Tab and Link Manager Lite:
  • Total NavBar replacement - looks and feels like the original.
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Home & Blog default vBulletin tabs.
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Forum & What's New default vBulletin tabs (via a template edit & importing a definition file into the Tab and Link Manager 4 database via impex).
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Projects tab.
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Global Search Box.
  • Two new Tab types: Dropdown and URL Matching (to allow for more than one tab to point to the same file, bypassing the THIS_SCRIPT limitations caused by the default NavBar).
  • Tab images.
  • Tabs can be positioned in three different locations on the NavBar.
  • Links and submenu links can be targeted on how it is to be opened in a web browser.
  • Tabs, links and submenu links can be either text or they can be a phrase (allowing for different text when another language is selected).
  • Tabs, links and submenu links can be local or external urls.
  • Script conditionals; allows for more control over each Tab, Link and SubMenu link, using conditional statements such as $show['searchbuttons'] && $show['member'].
  • Multiple THIS_SCRIPT names: allows multiple locations to highlight a single tab (Normal tabs).
  • Multiple relative/full urls: allows different content from a single file (such as vBCMS) to highlight several tabs correctly (URL_Matching tabs).
  • For viewers that have cookies disabled, all Tabs, Links and SubMenu links have the session hash correctly added to it.
  • For W3C standards purists the (x)html link target attribute has been replaced for Links and SubMenu links with the standards compliant rel attribute (via custom javascript) which emulates the target attribute and allows all xhtml generated by Tab and Link Manager 4 itself to 100% validate with W3C.
  • You can export your Tab and Link Manager 4 database to an xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links).
  • You can import your saved Tab and Link Manager 4 xml definition file into this product (all tabs, links and submenu links).
  • You can export your Tab and Link Manager Lite database to a compatible xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links) ready to import into Tab and Link Manager 4.

The reason for the simultaneous release is that I am using it as a showcase/demo of some of the capabilities of Tab and Link Manager 4.

Support as usual will only be provided to members who have purchased a vBulletin.org Hacks Support subscription, please read Question: How do I get support for your vBulletin.org Hacks? for more information on how to subscribe.

Hope you enjoy the hack.

Regards,

Mosh Shigdar, Wolfshead Solutions.