Missing right hand blocks

New Member Joined: Jul 22, 2006 Posts: 18

When my site's users switch to a different theme (most of them), they loose the blocks on the right hand side. The blocks are a paypal donation block, a shoutbox block, and a whoisonline block. Any help would be appreciated!

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:25 am

Please do a search in the forums this has been discussed before. Wink

Subject Matter Expert Joined: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 358

Right block visibility is controlled by whatever module is loaded. If right blocks are visible on one theme but not others, then we can rule out a problem with the module and the problem then will most likely be in the theme itself.

Most often, some poorly written or modified themes has missing table close tags (</table>). These omissions are usually found in either theme.php, tables.php or footer.html/php depending on the filesystem that theme uses.

Nuke uses an extremely complicated combination of nested tables, which makes finding one missing tag quite daunting. My way of chasing it down is to load the erroneous page and load the source into a text editor. Makes it a little easier to see what the browser is seeing that way.

PHrEEk

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:37 am

It is more than likely the theme, especially as you say it happens when your users change the theme.

Have a look at the following fix posted here: http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts7200-highlight-right+blocks.html

Hopefully this will fix it for you. Wink

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:57 pm

jakec wrote:

It is more than likely the theme, especially as you say it happens when your users change the theme.

Have a look at the following fix posted here: http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts7200-highlight-right+blocks.html

Hopefully this will fix it for you. Wink

Thank you from the bottom of my heart jakec. You are a gentleman, and a scholar! Worked like a charm.. Very Happy

Oh and FTR, I did do a search. I was just having no luck.

*UPDATE* ok so I have most of the themese working correctly now, except one pesky theme.php that I couldnt find the values in the file listed in the fix. The theme does have this code in there wich looks as if it is telling nuke NO RIGHT BLOCKS.

Code:

    if (!defined("NO_RIGHT_BLOCKS") && !defined("ADMIN_FILE")) {


echo"</td>"


  . "    <td width=\"150\" valign=\"top\">"


 ."";

Hangin' Around Joined: Aug 25, 2006 Posts: 44

I found this solution in another thread elsewhere long ago, don't know if it'll help, but here goes:

Quote:

open your theme.php

find

Code:

if ($index == 1) {

and change it to

Code:

if (defined('INDEX_FILE')) {

New Member Joined: Sep 21, 2007 Posts: 8

Praise be to god for the search engine! I believe these fixes will help me with my problem as well.

Thanks!

registered · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:50 pm

McCain, welcome to RavenPHPScripts!

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:29 pm

montego wrote:

McCain, welcome to RavenPHPScripts!

Thanks for the welcome.

Looks like I may have celebrated to early. When I got home I opened my theme.php file, but couldn't find the mentioned codes in the thread, all I can find in my theme.php file is ...

Code:

/************************************************************/


/* Function themefooter()                                   */


/*                                                          */


/* Control the footer for your site. You don't need to      */


/* close BODY and HTML tags at the end. In some part call   */


/* the function for right blocks with: blocks(right);       */


/* Also, $index variable need to be global and is used to   */


/* determine if the page your're viewing is the Homepage or */


/* and internal one.                                        */


/************************************************************/





function themefooter() {


    global $index, $foot1, $foot2, $foot3, $foot4, $copyright, $totaltime, $footer_message;


    if (defined('INDEX_FILE') || $index == 1) {


   $tmpl_file = "themes/AcidTechBlood/center_right.html";


   $thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));


   $thefile = addslashes($thefile);


   $thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";


   eval($thefile);


   print $r_file;


   blocks(right);


    }   


    $tmpl_file = "themes/AcidTechBlood/footer.html";


    $thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));


    $thefile = addslashes($thefile);


    $thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";


    eval($thefile);


    print $r_file;


                    echo "<center>\n";


        $footer_message = footmsg();


            echo "</center>\n";


// PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE NEXT LINE.


// YOU CAN ONLY ADD TO IT IF YOU MODIFY THIS THEME :-)


        echo "<center><br><font class=\"small\">:: AcidTechBlood phpbb2 style by <a href=\"http://www.freestylexl.com/\">Freestyle XL</a> / PHP-Nuke theme by <a href=\"http://www.cmsrevolution.com\">www.cmsrevolution.com</a> ::</font></center>";  


echo "<br>\n";


}

Not sure what to change here to keep the right hand blocks from vanishing when someone clicks the forum link, or the custom content links I have up.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

registered · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:44 am

Oh, you want right blocks? Even in forums? You'll have to modify the modules by adding a

define('INDEX_FILE', true);

to their files (usually modules/xxx/index.php).

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:42 am

Gremmie wrote:

Oh, you want right blocks? Even in forums? You'll have to modify the modules by adding a

define('INDEX_FILE', true);

to their files (usually modules/xxx/index.php).

Do I put that line of code anywhere in the index.php file?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:07 pm

I would put it at file scope (not inside any function). After the opening comment block (if there is one) should work.

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:31 pm

Gremmie wrote:

I would put it at file scope (not inside any function). After the opening comment block (if there is one) should work.

Ok I'll try that. Should work? Hehe, I'm still learning so we shall see. Smile

Thanks again.