Hide Left Blocks

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

To hide the left blocks for all modules, you need to edit your theme.php file. Find this code

Code:

blocks(left);

and comment it out

Code:

//blocks(left);

To hide the left block for a specific module, you need to edit theme.php and do 2 things. First of all, in the themeheader() function, add the variable $name to the global statement. Then, find this code

Code:

blocks(left);

and change it to

Code:

    if ($name=="MODULE_NAME") {}


    else blocks(left);

where MODULE_NAME is the name of the module to hide the blocks. For example, to hide the left blocks when viewing the Member List, you would code

Code:

    if ($name=="Members_List") {}


    else blocks(left);

Note that you will have to do this for every theme that you use

Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2003 Posts: 56 Location: Dallas

don't forget that you have to use put the $name variable in the global under the function

function themeheader() {
global $sitename, $pagetitle, $slogan, $prefix, $dbi, $user, $cookie, $banners, $anonymous, $user, $name;

Thought that had to be in place also

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:55 pm

Raven wrote:

To hide the left block for a specific module, you need to edit theme.php and do 2 things. First of all, in the themeheader() function, add the variable $name to the global statement.

Did I use invisible ink again Laughing

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:02 pm

woops sorry long day, and actually i have a theme that wont work on... tried a few different things and it still will not work

look at this !!!

Code:

function themeheader() {


   global $sitename, $pagetitle, $slogan, $prefix, $dbi, $user, $cookie, $banners, $anonymous, $user, $name;


   if (is_user($user)) {


   cookiedecode($user);


   $username = $cookie[1];


   $welcome = "Welcome, $username!";


   $menu = "<a href=index.php>Home</a> - <a href=modules.php?name=Your_Account>Your Account</a> - <a href=forums.html>Forums</a> - <a href=modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=logout>Logout</a>";


    } else {


   $welcome = "Welcome, Guest!";


   $menu = "<a href=modules.php?name=Your_Account>Login</a> - <a href=account-new_user.html>Sign Up</a>";


    }


   


    if ($banners) {


   include ("banners.php");


   }


   echo "<br><body bgcolor=ffffff font=000000>


        <table align=center width=100% border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>


        <tr valign=middle><td width=151><a href=index.php><img src=themes/Yahoo/images/logo.jpg border=0></a></td>


        <td width=100% align=right><a href=index.php></a><hr size='1'></td>


        </tr>


        </table>


        <table align=center width=100% border=0 cellpadding=8 cellspacing=0>


        <tr><td valign=middle>";


   //if ($banners) {


   //include ("banners.php");


   //}


   echo "</td></tr></table>


        <table align=center width=100% cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0>


        <tr><td width=50% align=left bgcolor=EEEEEE><b>$welcome</b></td>


        <td nowrap width=50% align=right bgcolor=EEEEEE>$menu</td>


        </tr><tr>


        <td colspan=2 width=100% bgcolor=6996E0 align=left><font class=title>$sitename ";


   if ($pagetitle == ""){


   echo "";


   } else {


   echo "$pagetitle";


   }


   echo "</font></td></tr></table><font class=tiny><br></font>


        <table align=center width=100% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>


        <tr><td width=180 valign=top bgcolor=EEEEEE>";


   if ($name=='Forums') { 


    /* Don't display it. */ 


   } 


   else { 


    blocks(left); 


   }


   echo "<td width=6 bgcolor=ffffff><img src=themes/Yahoo/images/pixel.gif width=6 height=1></td>


        <td bgcolor=ffffff valign=top>";


}

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:10 pm

That's because that theme is not written like standard nuke themes. This fix assumes that the theme.php is written as a standard nuke theme.php.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:16 pm

not written by me....... thought that was the problem

Regular Joined: Aug 22, 2003 Posts: 84

Is their a way to remove the Left and right blocks for a module?

(I looked at this thread, not just the left, but both.)

This is a custom module for serving documents and I thought it was great because the comments and ratings are on the bottom. I would like to turn this into a Guitar Tab module!

(As you can see the needed comments and ratings are on the bottom and leaving the much needed realistate for the removed left and side blocks for the proper pagination the guitar tab requires)

I am talking to this guy that produced the Recipe module and he said he is going to re write the descriptions to include documents. I may just do this my self and change the Breakfast, Meat, Food names to Country, Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock and change the icons to Guitar related Tab indexes.

Going to be just great!

How can I remove BOTH left and right blocks?

From this Module only.

Peace
Wink

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:12 pm

Open the module's index file and change:
$index = 1;
to:
$index = 0;

If it doesn't have the code just insert it near the start:
$index = 0;

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:31 pm

Yes, thanks very much. Right blocks GONE!

http://guitarchat.net/modules.php?name=Recipes&PHPSESSID=08371bbd28a791b1b749cdbb1b9b61f6

And to get the left removed?

Guitar tab can be very wide,

Thank you very much.

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:43 pm

Have you tried what's described above?
add $name to the themeheader global line and change:

Code:

    blocks(left);

to:

Code:

    if ($name=='Recipes') {


   }


   else {


    blocks(left);


   }

???

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:55 pm

I will try again.

But from what I see the main issue with the shrinking text with guitar tab is
the way the user pastes the text. (Like the smallish box I am typing in "Quick Reply" that is the main issue with shrunken miss paginated guitar tabs.

http://guitarchat.net/modules.php?name=Recipes&op=viewrecipe&recipeid=2&offset=0

I bet the above fix will work. And I will email the author about the small input box for the text.

Thanks.

Jay.

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:33 pm

I just use a 2 1/2in. wide strip of tape placed vertically on the left side of my monitor, works great! Laughing

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:22 am

O yes, I don't know how I skipped that. Thanks again from Noob Planet.
Worked 100% as described.

http://guitarchat.net/modules.php?name=Recipes&op=viewrecipe&recipeid=2

Now I am going to try to figure out how to edit the Text input box to have FULL
size Pagination.

Looks good so far. Next im going to edit the SQL file to reflect Guitar related words. Mr. Green

New Member Joined: Nov 27, 2004 Posts: 16

How do i do this for other modules? say i wanted two or three modules not to display left blocks but wanted the rest of the site to show left blocks.

I have tried to repeat the above method but returns a blank white page.

I have my forum like above and wanted another module that i have made not to show left blocks too.

Thnx in advance.

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:56 pm

Code:

    if ($name=='Module1' || $name=='Module2' || $name=='Module3') { 


   } 


   else { 


    blocks(left); 


   }

Or:

Code:

    if ($name!='Module1' || $name!='Module2' || $name!='Module3') { 


    blocks(left); 


   }

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:57 pm

Thanks man works great much apreciated Smile

Looks so simple put like that Sad

Oh well cant all be geniuses.

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:52 pm

Quick question:

This doesn't seem to work for me with any compound names that have an underscore in them. For example.....Forums work fine, Content works fine. But Members_List, Web_Links, etc will not work.

Any ideas? (This is for removing the left blocks, not the right)

Using this type of code:

Code:

if ($name=='Module1' || $name=='Module2' || $name=='Module3') { 


   } 


   else { 


    blocks(left); 


   }

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:31 pm

Try a period instead of an underscore.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:51 am

Still doesn't work. Here is the exact code I am using:

Code:

if ($name=="Forums" || $name=="PHP_Manual" || $name=="Amazon" ||  $name=="Content") { 


} 


else { 


blocks(left); 


}

All single words work fine. Nothing with an underscore will work.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:03 am

Try

Code:




global name;


if ($name=="Forums" || $name=="PHP_Manual" || $name=="Amazon" ||  $name=="Content") {


}


else {


blocks(left);


}

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:09 am

Thanks Raven. Your previous post pointed me in the right direction and I got it working. It turns out you can use spaces in there instead of the underscore. For example, my previous code above now works by doing this:

Code:

if ($name=="Forums" || $name=="PHP Manual" || $name=="Amazon" ||  $name=="Content") { 


} 


else { 


blocks(left); 


}

All compound names are working for me now if I include a space as the underscore in the if/else statement.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:31 am

- oops, I forgot that $name was already transformed. Good job!

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:55 am

Dumb luck. Smile

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction earlier.

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:04 am

Another quick question.....how do I remove these left blocks only when I am reading an article? I know I can add "News" to my above code, but that removes them from the home page as well. I want them there, but not when I click to read a full article.

Any ideas?

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:39 pm

Stumper?

I'm just thinking of being more search engine friendly. When they hit an article now they have to go through all the block code before it gets to the meat of the content. Removing the left blocks when viewing an article will put them right into the meat almost instantly.