adding additional links along side tabs above content

jstnhickey

I'm not sure how to explain this really, but I just installed a board and would like to add some additional links to categories about the listing of threads.
I have my board set up like this.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/screenor.png/
I would like to add links/tabs/buttons to my 3-4 categories next to "All Discussions" and "My discussions".
Any ideas how I can do this. I'm not great with coding, but can figure it out with guidance. I couldn't find any info in the documentation about editing these buttons/tabs.

sahotataran

i think you can only have one themehooks in one folder.
paste the code i gave you into the other theme hook and keep only on themehook in your theme folder.
also make sure you donot declare your hook
public function DiscussionsController_AfterDiscussionTabs_Handler($Sender)
twice in your themehooks.php

ddumont

Do you think you could mock up in a drawing what you want so we can get an idea of what they are for and how you want them to look? Otherwise, not really sure what you mean.

422

That image link throws up lots of popups , so couldn't see larger image. Are you using embedded forum, have you got link o the site.

jstnhickey

site is private sorry. Here's what I have
http://formutantsonly.com/screen.png
Here's what I want
http://formutantsonly.com/screen2.png
I'd like to link my categories in those spots. I only have 4 categories and I like that the page shows them all at once, but if someone would like to sort them I would like that option too.

422

Sorry cannot help, without link. Best of luck tho,there are some clever guys here

jstnhickey

I am using the embedded theme, with only some changes to some colors. fyi

ddumont

Not sure how to add tabs there in the embedded theme... @Lincoln, any pointers?

jstnhickey

any ideas out there?

sahotataran

seems like you want your categories to display next to the all discussions.
i use Vanilla 2.0.18.1 and here is what i will do:
i will create a theme hook public function
public function DiscussionsController_AfterDiscussionTabs_Handler($Sender){
$CategoryModel = new CategoryModel();
$_CategoryData = $CategoryModel->GetFull();
foreach ($_CategoryData->Result() as $Category) {
// (will ignore root node)
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root') $CountDiscussions = $CountDiscussions + $Category->CountDiscussions;
}
// Fetch every single Category...
foreach ($_CategoryData->Result() as $Category)
{
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root')
{
echo '< li >< a href="/categories/'.$Category->Name .'">'.$Category->Name.''.$Category->CountDiscussions.'</ a></ li>';
}
}
}

there can be errors with opening and closing of some stuff meaning {} or ' ' or " " - but u can try this

jstnhickey

little lost... can you explain what this file should be called, where it should go, etc?

sahotataran

did you go through the documentation for vanilla? i suggest you to go through that first. this is a hook that will go into your theme hooks and it will do its job - as you wanted.

jstnhickey

hmm i'm reading the documentation, but hot having luck creating a theme hook plugin. I guess i'll do some more research

sahotataran

yup. you can create a themehooks in theme folder and use the above code there or you can use it any enabled plugin and hook the code in there.

jstnhickey

this documentation is telling me that it goes in the plugin folder? This is what I tried, is this not the correct documentation.
http://vanillaforums.org/docs/theme-hooks

jstnhickey

Ok so my theme is called custom
I entered this code into a file called class.customthemehooks.php
class customThemeHooks implements Gdn_IPlugin {
public function DiscussionsController_AfterDiscussionTabs_Handler($Sender){
$CategoryModel = new CategoryModel();
$_CategoryData = $CategoryModel->GetFull();
foreach ($_CategoryData->Result() as $Category) {
// (will ignore root node)
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root') $CountDiscussions = $CountDiscussions + $Category->CountDiscussions;
}
// Fetch every single Category...
foreach ($_CategoryData->Result() as $Category)
{
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root')
{
echo '< li >< a href="/categories/'.$Category->Name .'">'.$Category->Name.''.$Category->CountDiscussions.'</ a></ li>';
}
}
}
}
all I get is the code printed on the top of the page.

jstnhickey

If I add this code
<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
to the begining (like I saw in other theme hooks) I get this error

Fatal error: Class customThemeHooks contains 1 abstract method and must therefore be declared abstract or implement the remaining methods (Gdn_IPlugin::Setup) in /home1/formutan/public_html/bsb2/themes/custom2/class.customthemehooks.php on line 19

Line 19 is a }
If I remove that I get this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_FUNCTION in /home1/formutan/public_html/bsb2/themes/custom2/class.customthemehooks.php on line 19

sahotataran

hi @jstnhickey - will work on the code an post the whole code here till monday/tuesday. thanks

jstnhickey

thanks a ton

sahotataran

ok so here is the hook @jstnhickey which works for me

public function DiscussionsController_AfterDiscussionTabs_Handler($Sender){
$CategoryModel = new CategoryModel();
$_CategoryData = $CategoryModel->GetFull();
foreach ($_CategoryData->Result() as $Category) {
// (will ignore root node)
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root') $CountDiscussions = $CountDiscussions + $Category->CountDiscussions;
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root')
{
echo '<li><a class="TabLink" href="/categories/'.$Category->Name .'">'.$Category->Name.' '.$Category->CountDiscussions.'</a></li>';
}

}
}


jstnhickey

I have tried to put this code into a file called class.custom2themehooks.php into the theme folder but nothing is happening when I load up the page. I inserted this code
class custom2ThemeHooks implements Gdn_Plugin Gdn_Plugin {
public function DiscussionsController_AfterDiscussionTabs_Handler($Sender){
$CategoryModel = new CategoryModel();
$_CategoryData = $CategoryModel->GetFull();
foreach ($_CategoryData->Result() as $Category) {
// (will ignore root node)
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root') $CountDiscussions = $CountDiscussions + $Category->CountDiscussions;
if ($Category->Name <> 'Root')
{
echo '<li><a class="TabLink" href="/categories/'.$Category->Name .'">'.$Category->Name.' '.$Category->CountDiscussions.'</a></li>';
}

}
}
}

Am I putting it in the wrong folder?

sahotataran

why do you have Gdn_Plugin twice?

sahotataran

try class custom2ThemeHooks implements Gdn_IPlugin {

jstnhickey

tried it with the code update insterting
class custom2ThemeHooks implements Gdn_IPlugin {
again nothing happens on the page.
I have the file called class.custom2themehooks.php and its in my theme's (titled custom2) main folder.

jstnhickey

there is another theme hook in the folder, is that a problem? This theme hook is called class.embedfriendlythemehooks.php
If I remove it and keep in my custom theme hook it prints the customtheme hook code at the top of the page. If I remove class.embedfriendlythemehooks.php and my customethemehook the page displays correctly. I'm not sure what the class.embedfriendlythemehooks.php does...

jstnhickey

awesome, worked perfectly, thank you so much

sahotataran

you r welcome :)