Thank but i know nothing about php and thought there may have been a control in the admin that i had missed, i wouldnt like to start altering/adding code to templates.
Notyet anyway
Well I don't know if in Icy there is the possibility to modify it through
ACP, sincerely I don't think.
Anyway even knowing nothing about php (me neither know nothing at all about php
) you can start to modify something... all templates are written in HTML and some javascript... if you have a little knowledge about HTML you can quite easily start make some tests...
I suggest you to do that
Menu block is all tables and scripts. First of all remember to
do a backup every time you want to try some change and then... try till you succeed
Let me give you (the little I am able to... ) some suggestion to start with.
For example, let's assume you want to add a "CREDITS" (just an example) page link in your menu block just below the "Forum" link, it's very simple:
You just need to open
nav_quick_links.tpl and find the table wich contains the main section links.
The main section links is this:
- <div id="main_links2" style="display: none; position: relative; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">
- <table class="forumline-no2" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
- <!-- BEGIN mg_switch_user_is_admin -->
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left">{ADMIN_LINK}</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_CMS}">{L_CMS}</a></td>
- </tr>
- <!-- END mg_switch_user_is_admin -->
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_PORTAL}">{L_HOME}</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_INDEX}">{L_FORUM}</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_BOARDRULES}">{L_BOARDRULES}</a></td>
- </tr>
As you can easily notice (if you have a little knowledge of HTML) it's only a div with a table... just create the <tr> section with the link you want to add (you can just copy the ones you find in it and modify them...
)
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="CREDITS_PAGE_LINK">Credits</a></td>
- </tr>
-
And than insert it just under the "Forum" <tr> section (like we wanted in the example) and you obtain
- <div id="main_links2" style="display: none; position: relative; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">
- <table class="forumline-no2" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
- <!-- BEGIN mg_switch_user_is_admin -->
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left">{ADMIN_LINK}</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_CMS}">{L_CMS}</a></td>
- </tr>
- <!-- END mg_switch_user_is_admin -->
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_PORTAL}">{L_HOME}</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_INDEX}">{L_FORUM}</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="CREDITS_PAGE_LINK">Credits</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" width="8">{IMG_NAV_MENU_SEP}</td>
- <td class="genmed" align="left"><a href="{U_BOARDRULES}">{L_BOARDRULES}</a></td>
- </tr>
All's done
If you have the good habit to do backups every change you make, you will be able to learn a lot of things... just trying and losing time finding where you are mistaking
I hope this could help...
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