add a link/button to menu?

[curious]

I want to add a new button to the menu bar that leads to ... say a chat.

I tried to edit subs.php but didn't succeed. At line 130 you can find the following:

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   $yymenu = "<a href=\"$scripturl\">$img[home]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$helpfile\" target=_blank>$img[help]</a>$menusep<a href="http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/chat.pl" target=_blank><img src="http://mysite.com/chat.gif"></a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=search\">$img[search]</a>";
   if($settings[7] == 'Administrator') { $yymenu = $yymenu.$menusep."<a href=\"$cgi;action=admin\">$img[admin]</a>"; }
   if($username == "Guest") { $yymenu .= $menusep."<a href=\"$cgi;action=login\">$img[login]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=register\">$img[register]</a>";
   } else {
      $yymenu .= "$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=profile;user=$username\">$img[profile]</a>";
      if($enable_notification) { $yymenu .= "$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=shownotify\">$img[notification]</a>"; }
      $yymenu .= "$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=logout\">$img[logout]</a>";
   }As you can see, I added a hyperlink and image right to the "home" button, but this is the error message I receive:

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Parse error: parse error in /home/www/mysite/html/yabbse/Sources/Subs.php on line 130

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: clicklog() in /home/www/mysite/html/yabbse/index.php on line 52
I defined the .gif in english.lng, but that didn't change a thing.
Line 52 in index.php is

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ClickLog();

Can somebody help me?

[Shaun]

Here's what I did.  I dunno if it's the best way 'cause I don't know PHP.  In the first <replace> step, make sure you replace "http://www.your url.com" with the url to your chat script.  Go to http://www.nextcelica.net/yabbse to see the "chat" button on the top menu.  Go ahead and save the chat button if you wanna use it.

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<edit file>
Sources/Subs.php
</edit file>

<search for>
$yymenu = "<a href=\"$scripturl\">$img[home]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$helpfile\" target=_blank>$img[help]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=search\">$img[search]</a>
</search for>
 
<replace>
$yymenu = "<a href=\"$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=\"http://www.your url.com\">$img[chat]</a>";
</replace>

<edit file>
english.lng
</edit file>

<search for>
$txt[749] = "The 'number of posts' box can only contain digits.";
</search for>

<add after>
$txt[chat] = "Chat";
</add after>

<search for>
   $img[website_sm] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/www_sm.gif\" alt=\"$txt[515]\" border=\"0\">";
</search for>

<add after>
  $img[chat] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/chat.gif\" alt=\"$txt[chat]\" border=\"0\">";
</add after>



[curious]

Thx Shaun!

This was exactly what I did by myself.
the language file, no matter if I used english.lng or german-rel100.lng, screwed up my board ("parse error" and no text in forums).

The problem is the definition of the tooltip/Alt-text.
When adding i.E. $txt[chat] or $txt[750] I get an parse error two lines below and everything screws up.
If I abandon the ALT text everything works fine.

I can live without a tooltip on my chat button, but this strange.


5 minutes later:
I modified the german.lng again and all of a sudden it works.
I have edited german.lng a hundred times before and was sure there was no mistake like a missing semicolon or the like. I was looking very thoroughly thru the 3 lines I had changed and they were ok!

How can this be then?

[Jeff Lewis]

Curious, you also needed to add a \ before each " in the new link you made as well as the image tag.

[curious]

thx Jeff,
but I had already realized.

I have here a modified .lng which didn't work before and now does.
This strange thing costed me a couple of hours and could have been finished in minutes.