Remove Spotlight from CT_RN

Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 15, 2008 Posts: 49

I looked around in the admin preferences/etc, but cant find a way to remove the spotlight feature. does this manually need to be removed from multiple files?

ex: www.projectphidev.com

also, how can i center the logo at the top of the page?

thanks in advance!

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

Before anyone addresses your questions, I was wondering why the hyperlinks have been removed from your footer? You do show the text but there should be link back anchor tags around Raven PHP Scripts and RavenNuke(tm) TEAM

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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:25 pm

was curious about that myself. i didnt remove the hyperlinks personally.
perhaps the CT_RN theme removed these somehow.

on that note, was also going to inquire how I can make the hyperlinks on the site display as normal hyperlinks, and not solid white to appear as normal text.

but i'll open a new thread for that.. Smile

registered · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:02 pm

tehw1n wrote:

perhaps the CT_RN theme removed these somehow.

Nope... I can see them plain as day when I switch to the said theme on http://www.ravennuke.com, the team's demo site.

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:18 pm

I'm wondering is if we added them in v2.30.01 (not yet released). I need to check that.

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:33 pm

Interesting, those dont show at all in my 2.3 ct_rn, I enabled the theme for a couple hours so you can look. Odd.

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:59 pm

Would you please zip up the entire CT_RN folder and email it to me at

raven
ravenphpscripts
com

Just formulate that to an email addy Smile

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:44 pm

yes i think there is an anomaly, it was missing from my version of CT_RN...

to remove the spotlight find in html/themes/CT_RN/theme.php

Code:

<div id="spotlight">


      <span><span>&nbsp;</span>


      </span>


      <img src="themes/CT_RN/images/small_spotlight.gif" alt="Spotlight" class="overlay" />';


        


        if(ads(0)){


      echo '<br /><br />';


         echo ads(0);  // the 0 indicates the banner postion change the position via your advertisment admin panel


        }else{


         echo '<img src="themes/CT_RN/images/spotlight.jpg" alt="Advertisment Banner" />';


       }


     echo '</div>';

and comment out or remove.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:23 pm

tried this spastic, but it caused http 500 error (no page displayed).

so I have added it back in..

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:52 pm

ahh my fault, forgot to close line above, find

Code:

echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <h1>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </h1>


      <!-- Spotlight Section -->


      <div id="spotlight">


      <span><span>&nbsp;</span>


      </span>


      <img src="themes/CT_RN/images/small_spotlight.gif" alt="Spotlight" class="overlay" />';


        


        if(ads(0)){


      echo '<br /><br />';


         echo ads(0);  // the 0 indicates the banner postion change the position via your advertisment admin panel


        }else{


         echo '<img src="themes/CT_RN/images/spotlight.jpg" alt="Advertisment Banner" />';


       }


     echo '</div>';

replace with

Code:

echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <h1>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </h1>';

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:43 pm

Horrorcode and SpasticDonkey: The CT_RN theme is not the issue. The code that ships with RNv2.30.00 is correct. That particular code is in the nuke_config table (Preferences footer 3)

If you check the file INSTALLATION/sql/rn_core.sql for the code that creates/populates the nuke_config table, you should see the following for the foot3 column you should see

Code:

'You can syndicate our news using the file <a href="backend.php"><font class="footmsg_l">backend.php</font></a> or <a href="ultramode.txt"><font class="footmsg_l">ultramode.txt</font></a> <br /><br /><font class="footmsg_l"><a href="http://ravenphpscripts.com" title="Distributed by Raven PHP Scripts">Distributed by Raven PHP Scripts</a><br />New code written and maintained by the<a href="HowToInstall/credits.html" target="_blank"> RavenNuke&trade; TEAM</a></font>'

Please verify that your nuke_config table foot3 column shows the same. Were your sites, per chance, upgrades and you missed the update to the foot3 column?

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:56 pm

yes the 2.3 installer is fine, and yes it was an upgrade... at one time i moved the rn credits up to footer2 for design reasons and had a custom footer3, when upgrade took place it didn't change footer3...

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:59 pm

sorry spastic, same thing. http 500 again.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:02 pm

I don't understand how you are getting an internal server error with any kind of change like this.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:04 pm

spasticdonkey wrote:

ahh my fault, forgot to close line above, find

Code:

echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <h1>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </h1>


      <!-- Spotlight Section -->


      <div id="spotlight">


      <span><span>&nbsp;</span>


      </span>


      <img src="themes/CT_RN/images/small_spotlight.gif" alt="Spotlight" class="overlay" />';


        


        if(ads(0)){


      echo '<br /><br />';


         echo ads(0);  // the 0 indicates the banner postion change the position via your advertisment admin panel


        }else{


         echo '<img src="themes/CT_RN/images/spotlight.jpg" alt="Advertisment Banner" />';


       }


     echo '</div>';

replace with

Code:

echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <h1>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </h1>';

There is a missing echo '</div>';

replace with

Code:

echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <h1>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </h1>';


echo '</div>';

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:11 pm

palbin, thanks for this, but no dice either.
it worked, but removed and broke some background formatting.

will leave as it is for a short while if you want to look.

www.projectphidev.com

i greatly appreciate the suggestions so far.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:42 pm

I'm looking into it now.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:59 pm

Ok try this. The following code assumes you are starting from a clean file.

Find:

Code:




      echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <h1>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </h1>


      <!-- Spotlight Section -->


      <div id="spotlight">


      <span><span>&nbsp;</span>


      </span>


      <img src="themes/CT_RN/images/small_spotlight.gif" alt="Spotlight" class="overlay" />';


        


        if(ads(0)){


      echo '<br /><br />';


         echo ads(0);  // the 0 indicates the banner postion change the position via your advertisment admin panel


        }else{


         echo '<img src="themes/CT_RN/images/spotlight.jpg" alt="Advertisment Banner" />';


       }


     echo '</div>';


     if (!is_user($user) AND $name != "Your_Account") {

Replace iwth:

Code:




      echo '</div>


      <div id="themecontainer">


      <!-- Banner -->


      <center>


      <a href="./"><img src="themes/CT_RN/images/mainbanner.jpg" alt="A Free Theme By www.clan-themes.co.uk" /></a>


      </center>';


             


        if(ads(0)){


      echo '<br /><br />';


         echo ads(0);  // the 0 indicates the banner postion change the position via your advertisment admin panel


        }


     


     if (!is_user($user) AND $name != "Your_Account") {

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:21 am

I'm pretty sure that the <h1> tag is required for formatting, and the themecontainer div isnt closed until the end of the page. This version of theme.php worked for me.

http://www.rtsforce.com/files/theme.zip

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:29 am

Your worked for me as well.

You are correct about the div tag that was a mistake by me a few posts back.

You need to remove the H1 tags because his banner is a different size.

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:45 am

yes that makes sense, and the centering does too Smile

if you want to just edit your CSS file so you don't have to mess with theme.php again, just find
h1{clear:both; height:232px; margin:0}
and replace with
h1{clear:both; height:150px; margin:0; text-align:center}
should work Smile

I would probably create a header image that is 980px wide so you dont need to center, but thats just me Smile

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:30 am

Woooooooo!
excellent!

Thank you so much guys. looks perfect. will keep the notes from this thread in case we get a correct banner size down the road.

Very Happy

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:49 am

Raven: Thanks for explaining, I never wouldve knew, I havent used those columns since '05... Ive always prefered to hard-code links and copyrights into the theme. That said, is there more of a specific way you (the team) could hard-code that into the copyright field and force copyright() to be shown wherever footer3 is, or something of that matter, maybe create a new field copyrightrn. Just some thoughts.