Menubar Optimizer

Menubar Optimizer
Menubar Optimizer
Summary	This Mod lets you optimize the menubar for your needs.
Validation	Unknown
Mod Updated	14 Feb 2025
	TNG 15.0
	TNG 14.0
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Author(s)	Jean-Luc Halleux
Homepage	Menubar Optimizer (This page)
Mod Support	TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	jlh-tng@internetofficer.io
Latest Mod	v15.0.0.0
Min TNG V	14
Max TNG V	15+
Files modified	genlib.php
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Purpose of the mod

This Mod lets you optimize the menubar for your needs.

The Edit Options let you decide where you want to position important icons:

Search: can be moved into the Find dropdown menu, clarifying what "Search" and "Find" do.
Login/Logout: can become a dropdown menu or be moved to the right side of the screen.
Language option: can be moved into the menubar (with or without "language icons").
Share: can be moved into the menubar.
Print: can be moved into the menubar.
Bookmark: can be moved into the menubar.
Optional left align of all drop-down menus.
Auto Adjust option: automatically adjusts the width of dropdown menu titles.

The Mod is template independent. It has been tested with many templates.

Supported languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish

The Mod does not change the display on mobile screens.

Requirements

A working TNG installation.
A backup of all affected files (see the list in the summary in the upper right corner of the page)
An installed current version of the Mod Manager.

Revision History

Mod Version	TNG Version	Date	Contents
15.0.0.0	15.0	14 Feb 2025	TNG v15 compatible
14.0.0.1c	14.0	06 Aug 2023	Minor change to ensure compatibility with Mobile Site Enhancements mod
14.0.0.1b	14.0	24 May 2023	Correction of an undesired action of the mod on mobile site / Minor change to avoid conflict with the Admin menu link mod
14.0.0.1	14.0	08 May 2023	Quick Search comes on top when clicked / Corrected path of the savelanguage2.php when used in a CMS / Print, Bookmark and Share can be included in the menubar / Administration, Access Log and Edit Profile are removed from the Info drop-down menu if there is a Logout drop-down menu / Translation in 22 languages included
14.0.0.0c	14.0	07 Apr 2023	Correcting the path of savelanguage2.php when called from the histories folder and solving a compatibility issue with Change Language Droplist
14.0.0.0b1	14.0	02 Apr 2023	New option to control alignment and width of menubar titles, support of icons in language menu and correction of errors in mobile display
14.0.0.0a	14.0	23 Mar 2023	Solves compatibility issues with other mods and corrects bugs in mobile display
14.0.0.0	14.0	22 Mar 2023	Created by Jean-Luc Halleux

Conflicts and Issues

Installation

Uninstall and delete previous version of this mod (if installed)
Download the appropriate zip file as shown in the mod summary in the upper right corner of the page.
Extract the file from the downloaded zip file into the mods folder or FTP the extracted file to your mods folder.
Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files to install the mod.

Application Note

Country Flags in Language Drop-down List

This section explains how to customize the language drop-down list in the Menubar Optimizer.

Here is how to add a French flag to the French language entry:

in the admin menu, go to "Languages" >> "Edit Existing Language" and click the "Edit" icon of the French language
in front of "Name for this language as it will be displayed for visitors:", instead of just writing "Français", you write "<img src='/img_flags/Francais.png' /> Français" where /img_flags is the folder where you copied your flags (you can use any folder you want for the flags)
click "Save + Exit"

Then you repeat this operation for the different languages and you get the icons in the language dropdown list of Menubar Optimizer.

Keep in mind that language entries are automatically sorted in alphabetical order. Once you add the flags, the order will be the alphabetical order of the flags. It is better to rename the flag using the same name as the language (example: if the language is called "Deutsch", name the flag "Deutsch.png" or "Deutsch.gif" because if you name it "German.png" or "German.gif", it will not come in the same position in alphabetical order).

Lots of Flags

Flag icons are available from many sources.

A great resource is this page created by Katryne Chauvigné-Bourlaud: Des lots de drapeaux.

Alignment of the last drop-down menu

Depending on the template, the rightmost drop-down menu may be positioned against the right side of the screen. In such a case, it is recommended that the "Left align all drop-down menus" option be false.

Automatically adjust the width of drop-down menu titles

Depending on the language or on the use of personalized titles, some menu titles may exceed the built-in standard width. If this is the case, set the "Automatically adjust the width of drop-down menu titles" option to true and all your titles will get the space they need.