UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Tabs outside of the Admin area...

Howdy all,

I'm looking to do some modding to a new 7.2.1 board of mine (actually, it's an upgraded board from a really old WWWThreads install (which speaking of W3T...has anyone (or Rick) seen THIS?, lol), but all of my experience is with 6.x and earlier threads, so I'm still getting acclimated to the whole template system we've got going on now.... so please bear with me

Anyway, to the point... I have a need to display multiple lists/categories on a single screen at once and it occurred that a very slick (and overall the best) way of doing it would be to use the tabbed interface that is in the Admin area, but upon doing a wee bit of research it looks like those functions are only available from `admin.inc.php`. Is this the case? If so, am I correct in not wanting to include admin includes in a standard page (yeah, shouldn't matter, but I'm paranoid a bit )? Also, will the tabbing that is built in handle nested tabs?? Does anyone have any sample code of nested tabs?

I have a 3rd party tabbing solution I could use, but for many reasons I'd prefer to stay within the UBBT framework as much as possible.


Thanks in Advance!

Can't you just steal the cool tabbed stuff out of the admin rea for your own templates?

The control panel uses smarty, just like the rest of the forum.

no smarty in cpanel yet.. that's something we need to totally overhaul at some point..

right now the 'templates' are just straight php includes called *.tmpl.

Then steal the html from control panel en make it smarty

heh, ok

I'd have to steal it from the admin.inc as well I think (TopTab & BottomTab funtions), which means now I'm duplicating code somewhere... but, no big deal. I just didn't want to do that because I was gonna try to keep this board as neat & clean as possible while I hack it up, hehe. The last revision of it ended up with "borrowed" code in a 1,000 different places and got ugly in a hurry

Awh, memories. Allthough these memories are way back for me

I don't even keep record of hacks anymore

including the admin.inc.php files is limited to only admins/moderators accessing (if I remember right). You'd have to open up permissions on the file and then you'd be opening the control panel to possible mischief too, I'd think. I'd just snag the code into my own nav.inc.php file or something

Coming back to a dead thread that I started.. .thought I'd pass on the solution I ended up using.

Really simple one actually:
1. Grab this: http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/
2. Drop the tabber.js into your /ubb_js folder
3. Just add the appropriate bits of javascript to your templates as needed.


Going this route was far easier (for me anyway :p) than trying to pieces-parts things out of the admin pages.

hmm, i tore apart the admin js for the dropdowns for the faq in 7.3, maybe i need to look how the tab's work ...

really?

bah, I shoulda kept my support contract active long enough to get 7.3 (on 7.2.1) ... then again, I actually did this back around the time I originally started the thread so it wouldn't have mattered I reckon, I just now got back to update because I was here to post another question

on the upside, this solution was REALLY easy once I sat down and started using it.... it's been a while since I looked at the stuff in the Admin pages, but it looked like I would have been taking chunks from a few places to get it working. This was straightforward for me and even doing nested tabs was a snap.

'eh I don't think the admin center is smarty formatted and I'm sure parts aren't even oop; wonder when that'll all get updated to be ultra complex :x...