Adding A New Menu Button (Another One)

[ML]

I hope this is the place to post this.

I know that it has to be on this site somewhere, but I have been searching with "add button" and a variety of other words for two hours now and must have just missed it.

Anyway: I would like to add another menu button to my gallery. I have already added one button (to my home page) through the configuration, but there is no place to add another one.

Any help would be appreciated. The simpler you can make the instructions, the more I will appreciate your help. Thanking you in advance.

Mick

http://micksplace.net/coppermine/

[lurkalot]

Just an idea.  You could change the home button (top left of page) to actually take you to your site home page, as it does virtually the same as the album list button, and then use the link you added for something else.

If that makes sense.  

[ML]

Yep. That sounds good. I had actually thought about that, but am not sure how to do it.

Any suggestions?

[ML]

Found it in the config file. Thanks for the little push.

Will this change anything in the "See more pictures" link in an e-card." ?

[lurkalot]

Found it in the config file. Thanks for the little push.

Sorry, I should have mentioned it could be done in config.  Glad you found it.

Will this change anything in the "See more pictures" link in an e-card." ?

I've no idea to be honest, but that's how my links are setup, and I've had no complaints.  Maybe Andre or one of the other devs can confirm.

[Αndré]

It won't change the behavior of your ecards. The 'correct' way to add menu buttons is to edit your theme. You have to copy the following sections from themes/sample/theme.php to your theme's theme.php file:

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function assemble_template_buttons($template_buttons,$buttons)
{
    $counter=0;
    $output='';

    foreach ($buttons as $button)  {
        if (isset($button[4])) {
            $spacer=$button[4];
        } else {
            $spacer='';
        }

        $params = array(
            '{SPACER}'     => $spacer,
            '{BLOCK_ID}'   => $button[3],
            '{HREF_TGT}'   => $button[2],
            '{HREF_TITLE}' => $button[1],
            '{HREF_LNK}'   => $button[0],
            '{HREF_ATTRIBUTES}'   => $button[5]
            );
        $output.=template_eval($template_buttons, $params);
    }
    return $output;
}

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function addbutton(&$menu,$href_lnk,$href_title,$href_tgt,$block_id,$spacer,$href_attrib='')
{
    $menu[]=array($href_lnk,$href_title,$href_tgt,$block_id,$spacer,$href_attrib);
}

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if (!defined('THEME_HAS_NO_SYS_MENU_BUTTONS')) {

  // HTML template for template sys_menu spacer

  $template_sys_menu_spacer = '<img src="themes/water_drop/images/orange_carret.gif" width="8" height="8" border="0" alt="" />';

  // HTML template for template sys_menu buttons

  $template_sys_menu_button = <<<EOT
  <!-- BEGIN {BLOCK_ID} -->
        <a href="{HREF_TGT}" title="{HREF_TITLE}" {HREF_ATTRIBUTES}>{HREF_LNK}</a> {SPACER}
  <!-- END {BLOCK_ID} -->
EOT;

  // HTML template for template sys_menu buttons

    // {HREF_LNK}{HREF_TITLE}{HREF_TGT}{BLOCK_ID}{SPACER}{HREF_ATTRIBUTES}
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{HOME_LNK}','{HOME_TITLE}','{HOME_TGT}','home',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{CONTACT_LNK}','{CONTACT_TITLE}','{CONTACT_TGT}','contact',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{MY_GAL_LNK}','{MY_GAL_TITLE}','{MY_GAL_TGT}','my_gallery',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{MEMBERLIST_LNK}','{MEMBERLIST_TITLE}','{MEMBERLIST_TGT}','allow_memberlist',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    if (array_key_exists('allowed_albums', $USER_DATA) && is_array($USER_DATA['allowed_albums']) && count($USER_DATA['allowed_albums'])) {
      addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{UPL_APP_LNK}','{UPL_APP_TITLE}','{UPL_APP_TGT}','upload_approval',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    }
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{MY_PROF_LNK}','{MY_PROF_TITLE}','{MY_PROF_TGT}','my_profile',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{ADM_MODE_LNK}','{ADM_MODE_TITLE}','{ADM_MODE_TGT}','enter_admin_mode',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{USR_MODE_LNK}','{USR_MODE_TITLE}','{USR_MODE_TGT}','leave_admin_mode',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{SIDEBAR_LNK}','{SIDEBAR_TITLE}','{SIDEBAR_TGT}','sidebar',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{UPL_PIC_LNK}','{UPL_PIC_TITLE}','{UPL_PIC_TGT}','upload_pic',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{REGISTER_LNK}','{REGISTER_TITLE}','{REGISTER_TGT}','register',$template_sys_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{LOGIN_LNK}','{LOGIN_TITLE}','{LOGIN_TGT}','login','');
    addbutton($sys_menu_buttons,'{LOGOUT_LNK}','{LOGOUT_TITLE}','{LOGOUT_TGT}','logout','');
    // Login and Logout don't have a spacer as only one is shown, and either would be the last option.



  $sys_menu_buttons = CPGPluginAPI::filter('sys_menu',$sys_menu_buttons);
  $params = array('{BUTTONS}' => assemble_template_buttons($template_sys_menu_button,$sys_menu_buttons));
  $template_sys_menu = template_eval($template_sys_menu,$params);
}

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if (!defined('THEME_HAS_NO_SUB_MENU_BUTTONS')) {

    // HTML template for template sub_menu spacer

    $template_sub_menu_spacer = $template_sys_menu_spacer;

    // HTML template for template sub_menu buttons

    $template_sub_menu_button = $template_sys_menu_button;

    // HTML template for template sub_menu buttons

    // {HREF_LNK}{HREF_TITLE}{HREF_TGT}{BLOCK_ID}{SPACER}{HREF_ATTRIBUTES}
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{CUSTOM_LNK_LNK}','{CUSTOM_LNK_TITLE}','{CUSTOM_LNK_TGT}','custom_link',$template_sub_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{ALB_LIST_LNK}','{ALB_LIST_TITLE}','{ALB_LIST_TGT}','album_list',$template_sub_menu_spacer);
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{LASTUP_LNK}','{LASTUP_TITLE}','{LASTUP_TGT}','lastup',$template_sub_menu_spacer,'rel="nofollow"');
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{LASTCOM_LNK}','{LASTCOM_TITLE}','{LASTCOM_TGT}','lastcom',$template_sub_menu_spacer,'rel="nofollow"');
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{TOPN_LNK}','{TOPN_TITLE}','{TOPN_TGT}','topn',$template_sub_menu_spacer,'rel="nofollow"');
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{TOPRATED_LNK}','{TOPRATED_TITLE}','{TOPRATED_TGT}','toprated',$template_sub_menu_spacer,'rel="nofollow"');
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{FAV_LNK}','{FAV_TITLE}','{FAV_TGT}','favpics',$template_sub_menu_spacer,'rel="nofollow"');
    if ($CONFIG['browse_by_date'] != 0) {
        addbutton($sub_menu_buttons, '{BROWSEBYDATE_LNK}', '{BROWSEBYDATE_TITLE}', '{BROWSEBYDATE_TGT}', 'browse_by_date', $template_sub_menu_spacer, 'rel="nofollow" class="greybox"');
    }
    addbutton($sub_menu_buttons,'{SEARCH_LNK}','{SEARCH_TITLE}','{SEARCH_TGT}','search','');


    $sub_menu_buttons = CPGPluginAPI::filter('sub_menu',$sub_menu_buttons);
    $params = array('{BUTTONS}' => assemble_template_buttons($template_sub_menu_button,$sub_menu_buttons));
    $template_sub_menu = template_eval($template_sub_menu,$params);
}

Depending on which menu you want to add your button to, you have to edit the last or the second last section. It should be self-explanatory how to add a new button if you have a look at the code (the addbutton(...) lines).