Custom Side Nav Links

almalino

Interesting it is not updating with composer update davwheat/custom-sidenav-links
It stays on v 1.0.0

This is what it writes when I try to update

ubuntu:/var/www/html/flarum$ composer update davwheat/custom-sidenav-links
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Nothing to modify in lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Nothing to install, update or remove
Generating autoload files
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Use the `composer fund` command to find out more!

clarkwinkelmann

almalino what's your Flarum version?

I see 1.0.1 is only compatible with Flarum 1.1 and up. So maybe you are still on 1.0 and that's why Composer doesn't update the package?

You can also check which version is listed in your composer.json. Maybe a specific version was hard-coded. You can set the version to *

Or you can use the require command again to force Composer to re-compute the latest version in a different way.

You can assume every extension is compatible with Flarum 1.2. Very few extensions will experience breaking changes.

almalino

BTW is it compatible with Flarum 1.2.0?

Umutcan

almalino This extension is compatible. Because I am using this extension and while it was installed I ran the update command. No problem occurred

almalino

clarkwinkelmann yes I am still on 1.0 . That explains why it is not updated. So I need to

disable extension
upgrade flarum to 1.2
upgrade extension to 1.0.1
enable extension. Right?

Gerriet

Umutcan This extension is compatible. Because I am using this extension and while it was installed I ran the update command. No problem occurred

mix0nSPb I don't know if this right, but see the post from Umutcan 😃

clarkwinkelmann

almalino when you update Flarum with the official commands, it will also update extensions.

You don't absolutely need to disable the extensions during Flarum update. It's safer to do so, but not required.

The most important is to make a backup in case the update goes wrong.

mix0nSPb

Hey guys! tell me what could be the problem with this extension? when I installed it using composer everything went well, but the extension did not appear in the admin panel.

MikeJones

I am trying to add some more links but none of the icons I have tried recently are showing up. I have tried:

fab fa-shop
fab fa-tag

I cant get any to work.

davwheat

MikeJones

fab is intended for brand icons rather than generic icons.

You should be able to use fas fa-tag and fas fa-store/fas fa-shopping-basket (I can't see a shop icon on FontAwesome's website?)

MikeJones

davwheat ooo interesting. Didn't know that about the fab vs fas tag.

I think the search is janky on their website sometimes. I see the shop:

shop

And it still didnt work with fas

But I did get a campground one to work so go figure lol

Darkle

MikeJones You are looking for fas fa-store-alt, the Font Awesome website now defaults to FA 6, Flarum currently uses FA 5, don't forget to select it from here to get the correct tags.

MikeJones

Darkle awesome thanks for the tip!

tom23

davwheat nice one!
It doesn't seem to make a difference if I select above or below. can this be put under the tags as noted in the screenshot above? That would be great! Thanks for this extension!

Yolo

@davwheat how can i activate this menu item only for registered members? is that somehow possible?

Trc4

Yolo how can i activate this menu item only for registered members? is that somehow possible?

@davwheat 🤔
we would also like to disable this for the guests.

Walid

Hi,
What does the "is Flarum URL?" toggle button do exactly?

Walid

davwheat Hi, I'm not very good with JS, but I was looking around the code to try to understand it and with a bit of help from ChatGPT, I was wondering if this little change would do it (open all external links in new tab/window):
in the file flarum-ext-custom-sidenav-links/js/src/forum
/index.tsx (line 41) we have this code:

        items.add(
          'customLink-' + i,
          <LinkButton external={!link.internal} href={href} rel="noopener noreferrer" icon={link.icon}>
            {link.text}
          </LinkButton>,
          priority
        );

and we could maybe add this target={link.internal ? null : "_blank"} before icon=:

        items.add(
          'customLink-' + i,
          <LinkButton external={!link.internal} href={href} rel="noopener noreferrer" target={link.internal ? null : "_blank"} icon={link.icon}>
            {link.text}
          </LinkButton>,
          priority
        );

would that do it?

Durtdawber

I'm running my forum on Flarum Free. I've activated this extension. When I enter a new link and save it, I see the link show up in the extension for a second then go away. I've tried entering a couple of links, deleting them, turning the extension on/off, clearing my cache but nothing allows me to enter a link that shows up.

Darkle

Durtdawber You have to save twice, first in the new link form and then in the link list.

Durtdawber

Darkle When I enter the link in the form then click save link, the button to save changes says "No changes to save". It does not let me save the links I added.

Durtdawber

Darkle Also, if I change the Show Top Spacer and Show Bottom Spacker, then click save settings, It acts like if save the change but when I go back into the Extension, the settings are back to the way they were before I changed them.

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