Adding a link to the menu

[mason]

I have been trying to add an icon of recent questions within the menu.

I have edited Subs.php from

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$yymenu = "<a href=\"$scripturl\">$img[home]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$helpfile\" target=_blank>$img[help]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=search\">$img[search]</a>"; (after this it remain unaltered)

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$yymenu = "<a href=\"$scripturl\">$img[home]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$helpfile\" target=_blank>$img[help]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=search\">$img[search]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=recent\">$img[recentq]</a>";
basically only

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$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=recent\">$img[recentq]</a>[/ added.

This didn't work although the html code did change to show the href but not the image code.

I then simply duplicated the menu code to display the home link twice, it worked perfectly so I assumed I need to do something re the recent question .gif. I checked it existing with all the other icons, it does.

I also looked through some to the other yabbse files and edited the yse141.ya file and added

$txt[889] = "Recent Questions:";
&
$img['recentq'] = $txt[889];

Guessing this might work, it hasn't.

Please could someone point me in the right direction to add the link/icon to the menu.

Many Thanks

[Michele]

Go back into your language file (english.lng) and just below where you added

$img['recentq'] = $txt[889];

There is another section where you put the path to the gif in... it should be easy enough to figure out once you see the section.

Good luck, Mad Moya

[mason]

Tried editing the english.lng file once uploaded the menu disappeared from the forum.

Assuming I start from stratch what files should I have edited i.e. should I have edited Subs.php, yse141.ya and english.lng?

Am I basically adding the reference of the image?

This is all very new to me, until today I had never seen and .php!

Thanks

[Michele]

Make sure every line you add into english.lng ends with a semi-colon ( - that's what PHP needs to know as the end of the instruction/command/function.

Leave yse141.ya alone, that was used during the install. You need to edit english.lng (which you did) and add a line. Double check your $txt[] and your $img[] lines again to make sure there isn't a typo.

Then you need to find this:

$img['postEvent'] = '<img src="' . $imagesdir . '/calendarpe.gif" alt="' . $txt['calendar23'] . '" border="0" />';

and add this right after it:

$img['recentq'] = '<img src="' . $imagesdir . '/recentq.gif" alt="' . $txt[889] . '" border="0" />';

You also need to edit index.php in the section where it defines all the action=stuff. If you're using v1.5.0, it will be after $actionArray = array( . If you're using v1.4.x, it will be in one of the FastFind sections.

In the subs.php, it looks like you did the changes correctly.

HTH, MM

[mason]

Thanks for your help, I appear to be having a few problems, I am going to have another look in the morning, I will post my comment then.

Thanks for your help I am sure I will get there in the end!!

Mason