How to add more menu items next to "Quick links" and "FAQ"...

[Andrew Mackinnon]

I'm building a website using phpBB 3.3.5.

(phpBB is excellent software. Thanks a lot for providing it for use. Also, this support forum is amazing.)

Currently, "Quick links" and "FAQ" appear near the top of many (if not all) web pages in phpBB 3.3.5.

I would like to add more menu items next to "Quick links" and "FAQ" on every web page on which "Quick links" and "FAQ" currently appear in phpBB 3.3.5. Assuming that these menu items are named "A", "B" and "C", I would like to be able to change the order of all the menu items from left to right, so that the order from left to right is something like "A", "B", "C", "Quick links" and "FAQ".

Currently, clicking on "Quick links" results in a drop-down appearing, so that this drop-down displays several items to choose from.

One of the menu items I would like to add is named "About". I would like a drop-down to appear when the user clicks on this menu item named "About", so that this drop-down displays several items to choose from.

I would like each of these items to link to a static web page which is in the normal phpBB format with the normal phpBB header and phpBB footer, except that instead of one or more forums appearing in the middle of the web page, I would like to be able to enter basic text and basic HTML, such as URLs, in the middle of the web page for the users to read when they visit the web page.

If somebody could please point me in the right direction in order to accomplish this, I sure would appreciate it. I have a strong enough background in programming, database development and website design using HTML to have a good chance of being able to follow your instructions and add these menu items and web pages.

Thanks a lot for any assistance you can provide.

[Mannix_]

You are gonna need to edit the navbar_header.html file to add it

Here is a template. Good Luck !

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		<li class="dropdown-container responsive-menu data-skip-responsive="true">
			<a href="#" class="dropdown-trigger">
				<i class="icon fa-bars fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span>About</span>
			</a>
			<div class="dropdown">
				<div class="pointer"><div class="pointer-inner"></div></div>
				<ul class="dropdown-contents" role="menu">
					<li>
						<a href="yourlink" role="menuitem">
							<i class="icon fa-shield fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span>Your Link Name 1</span>
						</a>
					</li>	
					<li>
						<a href="yourlink" role="menuitem">
							<i class="icon fa-shield fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span>Your Link Name 2</span>
						</a>
					</li>		
					<li>
						<a href="yourlink" role="menuitem">
							<i class="icon fa-shield fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span>Your Link Name 3</span>
						</a>
					</li>											
				</ul>
			</div>
		</li>

Notice you are gonna need to adjust the FontAwesome icons in the template I repeated a shield 3 times. If you don't want the icons just remove the i tags

After making changes don't forget to purge the cache in ACP.

[pit-PL]

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/pages/

[Andrew Mackinnon]

Thanks a lot for letting me know, Mannix_. I really appreciate it.

Could you please tell me what the path for the navbar_header.html file is?

[P_I]

You are gonna need to edit the navbar_header.html file to add it

Here is a template. Good Luck !
<snip>

After making changes don't forget to purge the cache in ACP.

Also remember to fully document the changes you make as you will likely need to reapply them each and every time you update your phpBB software. That's the disadvantage to editing the phpBB core files.

Added: You could also look at the LMDI Multilinks extension. Then you wouldn't have to modify phpBB core files.

[Mannix_]

Thanks a lot for letting me know, Mannix_. I really appreciate it.

Could you please tell me what the path for the navbar_header.html file is?

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root/styles/prosilver/template/

[Andrew Mackinnon]

Thanks also, Mannix_, for the template which you provided to me, which is very helpful.

I can't build my website the way I want without making this modification and I wouldn't have been able to do it without your expert assistance.

[Andrew Mackinnon]

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/pages/

Thanks so much, pit-PL, for pointing me in the direction of this very helpful extension.

I'm embarrassed to say that when I first visited this URL that you provided, I thought it was just a generic web page instead of the answer to my problem.

I'm sorry for being so careless.

I'll take a very close look at it because I can't build my website the way I want to without making these modifications to phpBB.

Thanks a lot for being such a help to me. I really appreciate it.