Add a Tab to the top of your menu!

VERSIONS: 1.3.5sp3 (May work with older versions)

SKINS: Basic (May work with other skins)



Remember to add the $lang.variable by adding the “Add new item” section of the language section

(/admin.php?target=languages)

Simply Copy + Paste the passage below to add the Knowledge base tab.

Add the code where-ever it is required between tabs



/skins/basic/customer/top_menu.tpl


[COLOR=DarkOrange] {if $target == '[COLOR=Blue]knowledgebase[/COLOR]'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}


{include file="top_quick_links.tpl"}

{if $target == 'checkout' || $mode == 'cart'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}

{$lang.view_cart}

{if $target == 'knowledgebase'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}

{$lang.knowledgebase}

{if $target == 'profiles' || $target == 'auth'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}
{if $auth.user_id}

{$lang.my_account}

{else}

{$lang.my_account}

{/if}

{if $mode == 'catalog' || $target == 'products' || $target == 'categories' || $target == 'manufacturers'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}

{$lang.catalog}

{if $target == '' && $mode == ''}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}

{$lang.home}

Your 1.3.5 SP3 top_menu.tpl file looks nothing like my 1.3.5 SP3 top_menu.tpl file.

He could be using a different skin.

Jesse,



Thanks for this… I’ve been looking for something like this. Here’s my question… we added an item for “Reviews”… and linked it to a non cart page. It works fine if you click the text, but if you miss the text and click the button itself, then it trys to append the reviews url to the end of the cart url… not pretty. Any idea what I could tweak to make that work?



Thanks again,

JB

The first block of code was taken out of customer/top_menu.tpl and inserted into buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl with a few new $variables: $title, $target, $mode



Then adding a new tab to the top menu is as easy as adding this in top_menu.tpl

{include file=“top_menu_tab.tpl” title=$lang.variable target=value mode=value}



I come from an object oriented programing background, and it just seemed logical to take the tab button completely out of the tab strip and make it its own entity.



The only real requirement is the title value. If no target and mode are supplied, the home page is returned.



If someone could rewrite the code that appears in top_menu_tab.tpl to properly construct the link url to only append the target and/or mode parameters if they are included, currently if they are left out, the url will look like: index.php?target=&mode= which is kind of ugly.



Create the following file: /customer/buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl

```php

{include file="top_quick_links.tpl"}

{if $target == 'checkout' || $mode == 'cart'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}
{include file="buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl" title=$lang.view_cart target="checkout" mode="cart"}

{if $target == 'profiles' || $target == 'auth'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}

{if $auth.user_id}
{include file="buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl" title=$lang.my_account target="profiles" mode="update"}
{else}
{include file="buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl" title=$lang.my_account target="auth" mode="login_form"}
{/if}

{if $mode == 'catalog' || $target == 'products' || $target == 'categories' || $target == 'manufacturers'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}
{include file="buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl" title=$lang.catalog mode="catalog"}

{if $target == '' && $mode == ''}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}
{include file="buttons/top_menu_tab.tpl" title=$lang.home}

Great contribution with lots of uses. Needed to mod it quite a bit to get it to work with New Vision Blue but worked great after a few minutes of work.

So based on the code below:

{if $target == 'knowledgebase'}
{assign var='but_active' value='-active'}
{else}
{assign var='but_active' value=''}
{/if}


I can’t guarantee it however that should work, not 100% sure but I think there needs to be an & somewhere in that link

Just figured it out:



To test the condition:

{if $target == ‘pages’ && $page.page_id == ‘support’}



and



For the fn_redirect url on click:



Support