"Bookmark us" on your vBulletin forum!

The code within this article is the property of dynamicdrive. This is my short guide on how to add it to a vbulletin forum. This code is meant to work cross browser supporting IE4+, FF1+ and Opera7+.

A screenshot:



Firstly open up your headinclude template and paste this code at the bottom:

HTML:

<script type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* Bookmark site script- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/

/* Modified to support Opera */
function bookmarksite(title,url){
if (window.sidebar) // firefox
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "");
else if(window.opera && window.print){ // opera
var elem = document.createElement('a');
elem.setAttribute('href',url);
elem.setAttribute('title',title);
elem.setAttribute('rel','sidebar');
elem.click();
} 
else if(document.all)// ie
window.external.AddFavorite(url, title);
}
</script>

Some people may opt for placing the above code within their footer which you may do so if you wish.

After placing that and saving it you now need to edit your footer. Find this within your footer:

HTML:

$vboptions[copyrighttext]

Now edit accordingly the following code to match your websites address as well as its name:

HTML:

<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('Website Name', 'http://www.adminaddict.net')">Bookmark this site!</a>

If your websites name uses apostrophes remember to add a \ before the apostrophe.

Once you have that typed up to your liking place it after

HTML:

$vboptions[copyrighttext]

.

The following code was provided by Webmist which you may use instead of the above for the bookmark link to bookmark specific forums and use the specific forums title:

HTML:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('Your Site Name', 'http://www.yoursite.com/')">Bookmark this site!</a> 
<else />
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('$foruminfo[title]', 'http://www.yourforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]')">$foruminfo[title]</a> 
</if>

Save the template and you should now have a functioning bookmark us link. If you wish for it to be more prominent I suggest using CSS to style the link by adding a class and some additonal CSS or moving the link code elsewhere within your vb templates to another more prominent location.

Hope this helps anyone looking to add one of these to their vb forums

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Great one. I haven't tried it but I believe you can also use conditionals in your href for threads and post.

 

Neat idea, if you get that to work I will add it up and credit you for it

 

demo or screenshot please?

 

I have a screenshot of it in another location, it is just a link



Edit: Proper screenshot added to first post

 

Here's the code to put in the footer. The first is for the index page and the second is for the forum id. Of course you'll have to format your style.

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('Your Site Name', 'http://www.yoursite.com/')">Bookmark this site!</a> 
<else />
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('$foruminfo[title]', 'http://www.yourforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]')">$foruminfo[title]</a> 
</if>

 

Is there anything you can change the code to so that it will bookmark actual topics too? So perhaps

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('Your Site', 'http://www.yoursite.com/')">Bookmark this site!</a> 
<else />
<br />Bookmark this thread/topic: <a href="javascript:bookmarksite('$threadinfo[title]', 'http://www.yoursite.com/showthread.php?t=$threadinfo[threadid]')">$threadinfo[title]</a> 
</if> 

would work?

Edit: I checked and it does. It would be cool if we could get the forum to work with it too but I'm not sure how the if/else would work. Perhaps somebody can do that?

 

What do you mean with forums?

Like:

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('Your Site Name', 'http://www.yoursite.com/')">Bookmark this site!</a> 
<else />
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'">
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('$threadinfo[title]', 'http://www.yoursite.com/showthread.php?p=$threadinfo[threadid]')">$threadinfo[title]</a>
<else />
<br /><a href="javascript:bookmarksite('$foruminfo[title]', 'http://www.yourforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]')">$foruminfo[title]</a> 
</if>
</if> 

You can do it with just about anything on the forums. It's just formatting the calls.