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work mule
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 Posted - 07 August 2001 : 20:48:10
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NAVIGATION LINK BUILDER
If you've visited either The Writer or Tschive's Portal Mod, you've seen an alternative for the navigation menu for Snitz Forums.
This code was "unofficially" released a couple of months ago and I'm sure it was hard to edit or make changes. So...to make it easier to edit/modify your navigation links, here's an update to my previous code. This should be a major improvement over the previous code released for the navigation menu. 
Happy Mod'ing 
DOWNLOAD
http://www.scalemodelernetwork.com/downloads/snitz/inc_navigation.zip
(zip updated Aug 11, 2001)
UPDATE HISTORY
Aug 11, 2001 - The Nav_Links_Builder() sub has been tweaked. The sectionid is optional. If no value is present, then the sectionid querystring element will not be appended to the url. Accounted for blank array elements. Provided code for versions 3.1sr4 and 3.3sr2.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
SectionID's - The Writer and other Portal versions both rely upon a sectionid being passed to determine which set of links to display in the second row. This requires the additional line of code in inc_top.asp:
dim sectionid : sectionid = request("sectionid")
P.S. Before you modify your inc_top.asp file, I recommend that you have a basic understanding of that file. There is code available in the download file which modularizes the navigation links, the login/logout message, the forum title, the login/logout buttons, making it easier to change their placement in the forum. Copy and Paste as desired.
HISTORY (Related Topics)
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10385
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6863
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Edited by - work mule on 11 August 2001 23:53:25 |
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work mule
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Posted - 08 August 2001 : 02:17:45
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A couple of additional notes:
The main objective of this mod was to separate the navigation link data from the presentation code. This would make it easier for people to add, edit, rearrange and remove navigation links.
This is accomplished by hardcoding the navigation elements into arrays.
Each array element holds link information:
arrayNav(x) = ("name|link|acronymn|icon|sectionid|mlev_min|mlev_max")
What I'm really excited about is the mlev_min & mlev_max.
The mlev_min & mlev_max values are used to compare against the mLev value to determine if the navigation element should be displayed or not. This eliminates the need to add "If (mLev=x) Then" code anymore. So if you need to change which links are displayed to members vs. non-members, all you have to do is change these two values.
So for something like The Writer, the first row of navigation links would look similiar to this:
dim arrayNav(6)
arrayNav(0) = ("Forums|default.asp|Forum Homepage|icons/icon_nav_forums.gif||0|4")
arrayNav(1) = ("Calendar|events.asp|Events Calendar....|icons/icon_nav_calendar.gif|1|0|4")
arrayNav(2) = ("Register|policy.asp?mode=register|Register...|icons/icon_nav_profile.gif|2|0|0")
arrayNav(3) = ("Profile|pop_profile.asp?mode=display|Membership Area|icons/icon_nav_profile.gif|2|1|4")
arrayNav(4) = ("Help|faq.asp|Help, FAQ, and more...|icons/icon_nav_help.gif|3|0|4")
arrayNav(5) = ("Search|search.asp|Perform a search...|icons/icon_nav_search.gif|4|0|4")
arrayNav(6) = ("Admin Options|admin_home.asp|Administer|icons/icon_nav_admin.gif|888|4|4")
This is then passed to a sub procedure, along with a couple of additional parameters/values, which will then build that line of navigation. I didn't want to say "row" because this could built between a set of <div> tags or a set of <td> tags. It doesn't matter.
There's more to it, but it's all documented/commented in the code.
This can be used for the simple navigation menus (like on the Basic forum) all the way up to the Portal navigation menus. It should be flexible enough to meet most people's needs.
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Edited by - work mule on 08 August 2001 02:27:44 |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 08 August 2001 : 02:49:47
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| I'm going to try this out in a little while. looks really good! |
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work mule
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 09 August 2001 : 19:15:17
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| I had to change some of the CSS you were using, but other than that it works nice. |
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work mule
Senior Member
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1358 Posts |
Posted - 11 August 2001 : 11:57:48
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One additional note...the Writer and Portal versions both rely upon a sectionid being passed to determine which set of links to display in the second row. This requires the additional line of code in inc_top.asp:
dim sectionid : sectionid = request("sectionid")
...however if you don't want to pass this in the querystring, you can always put in a line of code that sets the sectionid for each page that would be different than the default areas of the site.
dim sectionid : sectionid = 1 'Events (or whatever section...)
The value of the querystring would be ignored.
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RDoGG™
Junior Member
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Posted - 11 August 2001 : 14:07:14
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Sounds great, but...
You link looks down.
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work mule
Senior Member
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Posted - 11 August 2001 : 14:51:09
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You link looks down.
Try it now...
I'm hosted with Readyhosting. They're usually pretty good, but every now and then it could be down temporarily. 
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Martha2Mary
Junior Member
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Posted - 11 August 2001 : 20:36:10
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I would love to implement this, but am having trouble figuring out exactly how to implement it in my inc_top.asp, so could someone please post the contents of their inc_top.asp so that I have something to reference when doing my own?
Many thanks!
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work mule
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Martha2Mary
Junior Member
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Posted - 11 August 2001 : 21:35:51
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I'm currently using 3.1 sr4, as I am waiting for 3.3 to have more of the bugs worked out of it before attempting to upgrade.
thanks!
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aston
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Posted - 11 August 2001 : 21:59:21
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I'm currently using 3.1 sr4, as I am waiting for 3.3 to have more of the bugs worked out of it before attempting to upgrade.
thanks!
*If Knowledge is Power, and Power Corrupts, what hope is there for Mankind *
Me too,hmmm,wait :)I think the speed of it will be more faster ,it is a little
slow .If it is like ideelbb^,hmm,just a thought..
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work mule
Senior Member
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Posted - 12 August 2001 : 00:24:08
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UPDATE!!!
I have made a minor tweak to the Nav_Links_Builder() sub procedure. If you've already implemented this mod, to update your copy, just replace the sub code for Nav_Links_Builder() with the Nav_Links_Builder() sub procedure code that's inside the zip file.
Here's what the tweaks were for:
1) Null sectionid's. If you're not using the portal code or don't want to use sectionid's, then leave the sectionid blank and the sectionid querystring element will be left off of the link.
2) Null/Blank Array Elements. What you'll notice in the inc_top.asp files is this:
If strAutoLogon = 1 Then
arrayNav(2) = ("Register|policy.asp|Register to post to our forum...|||0|0")
End If
Well, if strAutoLogon is not equal to 1, you don't have to worry 'bout it. No placeholders or redimension the array is required.
INC_TOP.ASP
In the download file, you'll now find modified inc_top.asp files for versions 3.1sr4 and 3.3sr2 of Snitz. The modifications to these files can be found by looking for: '#### NAV CODE MOD ####
Both files also have an include statement added for inc_navigation.asp.
The difference between the two versions is that for the new version, I put the code for the top navigation link array within the sForumNavigation() sub instead of in the inc_navigation.asp file.
MEMBER LEVELS
The min and max mLev values. If you have an array element for your member's page it'll look like this:
arrayNav(4) = ("Members|members.asp|Current members of these forums...|||0|4")
Well, the min/max mlev values are 0 and 4 respectively. Now if you want to restrict displaying it to member's only, then change the min mlev value to 1.
arrayNav(4) = ("Members|members.asp|Current members of these forums...|||1|4")
If you noticed the Register link above, it had both min and max set to 0. This link will only be shown to users with a member level set to 0. Once they login and they're member level is set, they won't see the Register link because they're mlev should be greater than 0.
Please keep in mind that this only controls the display of the link and doesn't control access to pages.
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Edited by - work mule on 12 August 2001 00:27:49 |
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fader
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Posted - 16 August 2001 : 17:51:30
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Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126'
Include file not found
/forum/login.asp, line 53
The include file 'inc_forum_variables.asp' was not found.
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Is that included in the sr versions or have i missed something from this mod. I used the files
inc_top.asp
logins.asp
logour.asp
from the navcodesnippets.zip
Can anyone help me get a nice clean login that i can easilly place in a table. What is the trick with these MOdD's and Tr's.
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work mule
Senior Member
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Posted - 16 August 2001 : 20:05:55
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Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126'
Include file not found
/forum/login.asp, line 53
The include file 'inc_forum_variables.asp' was not found.
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Is that included in the sr versions or have i missed something from this mod. I used the files
inc_top.asp
logins.asp
logour.asp
from the navcodesnippets.zip
Can anyone help me get a nice clean login that i can easilly place in a table. What is the trick with these MOdD's and Tr's.
Oh, that was from another mod (not this one). You can remove the reference to that include and it might work for you.
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