Hide left blocks when viewing Forum or ANY module

Nuke Cadet Joined: Apr 22, 2004 Posts: 8

I can get it to work only with the following:

Code:

global $home;
if ($home == 1) {blocks(left);

}

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Posts: 5

This thread is very informative for folks wishing to hide the left block column. I have a twist on that idea for use on mobile browsers. I like the left block column. Want to keep it. I want to do away with the center block - and only have the left hand block available from the start. If a user selects a search block, or a news block, then the page is replaced with the center block for that module. The [home] button would take them back to the left-hand-blocks page to continue their navigation. Is there a relatively easy fix for this scenario ? I have the sidekick that has a mobile browser (no client side javascript support yet ) which - like all mobile browsers - has a small screen. I want to use PHPNuke as the backend for my website.

Should this be a different thread ? Don't want to hijack this great discussion, but it is along the same lines, and this thread has been stagnant for a little while.

THANKS!
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Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Posts: 1

Hello, I use autotheme, I have empty theme.php how hide I my block-systems at modules.

my theme.php

Code:

<?php

$thename = basename(dirname(__FILE__));

include("modules/AutoTheme/autotheme.php");

?>

please help

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Posts: 5

This is what I am shooting for - without the center block - of course. I shrank the size of the block - but want to completely eliminate it from the main page so that the left-hand blocks format properly on my mobile device.

Any help appreciated ...

check MySite Link to see

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:39 pm

Ha yehaaaa What have you done exactly?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Posts: 5

I have a mobile phone with an html only browser ( little to no javascript capabilities ) I want to setup a website that is optimized for the display on my device. It's screen is 250x160. The default column size for the block in the 3d-Fantasy theme is 180 pixels - so this will work beautifully on my portable broswer. I do not want the center block to appear when you first connect to my site - only the menu blocks from the left hand side. Once a choice is made - I will use the methods outlined here to get rid of the left hand blocks once a module is chosen. I need to know the best way to get rid of the center block so when a user first connects to the site, they only see the content that will fit on the screen ( i.e. the left hand blocks. )

All I have done so far is to remove any blocks from the right hand side using the buillt-in blocks administration utility. Then I loaded the search box in the center block as a test - seems you can't just specify that there be "no" center block from the admin menu - so I chose the smallest one and then went into tables.php and indicated a small pixel width for table1. Thats what you see now when you connect to My Site

Any advice ?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Posts: 5

I thought this place was jumping with help! Smile

I figured that by modifying the theme.php and taking out the theme index function - and then making the news module the default home page that it would meet my need for the mainpage. I was right. Now my page happily only displays the left column upon first connect. You can see it here at My Site Now I am off to modify the code based on early bits of code posted in this thread to remove the left hand blocks when displaying the chosen module.

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Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 6

Quote:

[For the sake of discussion, I use a slightly different twist - saves a little typing. Either way works fine. To each his own... Wink

Code:

if ($name=='coppermine' ||
$name=='DisError' ||
$name=='Forums' ||
$name=='Members_List' ||
$name=='Private_Messages') {
} else {
blocks(left);
}

Yeah that was tight, I looked at pages 1 - 4 and nothing worked...except this. I am working on Nuke Platinum 7.6.0 with the theme v2d the theme.php has this code

Code:

global $swapleftright;
$swapleftright = "1";

if ($name=='Forums' ||
$name=='Private_Messages'||
$name=='Downloads') {
} else {

blocks(left);

} ;

$swapleftright = "0";

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:38 pm

Okay, a new twist here.

No matter what method posted here that I use, with php-Nuke 7.6, the best I get is no left columns at all. Usually the left column continues to display. This is only happening with themes I wasn't trying this in before. The themes using the coding list here is working in the two themes I had it in before upgrading for 7.4 to 7.6.

Any ideas??? This is just too weird. Twisted Evil

Private Joined: Sep 24, 2003 Posts: 36

Maybe you should try this:

Code:

global $swapleftright, $name;
$swapleftright = "1";

if ($name=='Forums' ||
$name=='Private_Messages'||
$name=='Downloads') {
} else {

blocks(left);

} ;

$swapleftright = "0";

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:03 pm

Hey this thing is not working with PHPNuke 7.6, the forums are being left-block-hidden, but not the Private_MEssages or Members_List Sad

Any other alternative?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 4

I have modified the code in theme.php to this:

Code:

if ($name=='*') {
}
else {
if ($name=='News') {
blocks(left);

This works fine, the blocks are hidden, but, as many people on here have asked but seem to move onto another subject:

It leaves behind a big empty bar, how do I reclaim this bar as part of the forum??

I need this space as my theme is a set width and makes the forum look a bit squished.

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:55 pm

... and don't forget to add the global $name to the theme.php file. Real important if you want it to work.

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:37 pm

Jesus....
This topic is ... I hate this. chatserv, mikem, ...... all nukers suggested but there is no automatized choice.

My suggestions is lik the followings:
1) find left all blocks from DB
2) if the blocks are assigned on the left block, then get the blocks names.
3) Except a block name == Forums, then don't call block(left).

Ok, I will try this idea in my local server.
If this will work for showing only forums, then.... all settle down?

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:56 pm

Maybe the BlocksMod2 from here can help you .

I have used it with version 7.5 and with a bit of attention to how to do it, it works great.
Should work with version 7.6 I would think.