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    Posted: 22 March 2008 at 7:57am
Hi!
 
Would it be possible for one of you wise and noble people to tell me how to add a navigation button to the main page of my forum?
 
Specifically, I want to add a button for aspchatnow to the upper left of my main forum page,
 
to the right of the  'forum home' button
 
At the moment I have to link to the chatroom from a sub forum, which doesnt look too slick!
 
Thanks guys!
 
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near line 347 of the 'default.asp' page you will see the following:

'Active Topics Links

strStatusBarTools = strStatusBarTools & "&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src=""" & strImagePath & "active_topics." & strForumImageType & """ alt=""" & strTxtActiveTopics & """ title=""" & strTxtActiveTopics & """ style=""vertical-align: text-bottom"" /> <a href=""active_topics.asp" & strQsSID1 & """>" & strTxtActiveTopics & "</a> "

strStatusBarTools = strStatusBarTools & "&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src=""" & strImagePath & "unanswered_topics." & strForumImageType & """ alt=""" & strTxtUnAnsweredTopics & """ title=""" & strTxtUnAnsweredTopics & """ style=""vertical-align: text-bottom"" /> <a href=""active_topics.asp?UA=Y" & strQsSID2 & """>" & strTxtUnAnsweredTopics & "</a> "


just add another line like so (just edit the part in red)

'Active Topics Links

strStatusBarTools = strStatusBarTools & "&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src=""" & strImagePath & "active_topics." & strForumImageType & """ alt=""" & strTxtActiveTopics & """ title=""" & strTxtActiveTopics & """ style=""vertical-align: text-bottom"" /> <a href=""active_topics.asp" & strQsSID1 & """>" & strTxtActiveTopics & "</a> "

strStatusBarTools = strStatusBarTools & "&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src=""" & strImagePath & "unanswered_topics." & strForumImageType & """ alt=""" & strTxtUnAnsweredTopics & """ title=""" & strTxtUnAnsweredTopics & """ style=""vertical-align: text-bottom"" /> <a href=""active_topics.asp?UA=Y" & strQsSID2 & """>" & strTxtUnAnsweredTopics & "</a> "
strStatusBarTools = strStatusBarTools &
"&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src=""" & strImagePath &
"chatroom." & strForumImageType & """ alt=""Chat Room"" title=""Chat Room"" style=""vertical-align: text-bottom"" /> <a
href=""chatroom.asp"">Chat Room</a> "


The parts in green are the parts you will need to edit.

the first one is the name of the icon image that will be used next to the link,

the 2nd and 3rd are just the name, can leave this if you want,

4th is the link to the forum, i suspect you will want to change this to a javascript popup,

and 5th is the text that will display for the link, as with 2nd and 3rd, can leave this.
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Thankyou Scotty!
 
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It would not work at first, but when I added an image for it in to the forum images folder it worked brilliantly!

 

My thanks again!
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You will need to make sure that your chatroom icon is a .png and .gif
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Hi Scotty
Done exactly as you say above and it did not work Unhappy
I made sure images were in forum_images
I copied and amended the asp bit

No luck
But chat room is working, but I just can't add the link the way this other person wanted
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How did it not work, could you explain a bit more how it went wrong?

Did the link not display at all?
Did you get any errors? if so could you paste them here?
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strStatusBarTools = strStatusBarTools &
"&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src=""" & strImagePath &
"chatroom." & strForumImageType & """ alt=""Chat Room"" title=""Chat Room"" style=""vertical-align: text-bottom"" /> <a
href=""chatroom.asp"">Chat Room</a> "

So I copied the above and using Araneae Text Editor I pasted it just below the line you mentioned. The green chatroom I assume refers to the image, which in my case I named chat, and I just changed that to chat.

I assume you don't need .gif or .png behind the full stop as it will select the image file?
The href in my case chatroom.asp is in a separate folder outside the forum folder, so that was
/ChatRoom/chatroom.asp in my case

I uploaded two image files and default.asp (ammended of course) and then I got a VB error, unexpected end of statement! No link, no forum page or anything. I had backed up the default.asp file so uploading the backup wasn't an issue, but I think I did do it all the right way
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