approval bar

Captain Joined: Jan 16, 2004 Posts: 336

I know that I like to know quickly when some items needs review for approval, the admin block is great but I'm lazy and don't want to scroll down to it. So... I've added this to the themes/yourtheme/header.php I insert this at the bottom of the code just above the . "</table>" I've left it in the code so you can see where it goes. Only administrators will see the bar, users will never know it's there and you know quickly if you have any new content that requires attn. The below bar is for my site but you can easily customize which submissions you want to see.

Code:

."<tr>\n";

   if (is_admin($admin)) {

echo "<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#CACACA\" colspan=\"4\"><br><a href=\"admin.php\">Administration</a>\n";
         $res=sql_query("select * from $prefix"._queue."", $dbi);
         $num = sql_num_rows($res, $dbi);
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=submissions\">News: $num</a>\n";
         $res=sql_query("select * from $prefix"._links_newlink."", $dbi);
         $num = sql_num_rows($res, $dbi);
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=Links\">Links: $num</a>\n";
         $res=sql_query("select * from $prefix"._downloads_newdownload."", $dbi);
         $num = sql_num_rows($res, $dbi);
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=downloads\">Downloads: $num</a>\n";
         $res=sql_query("select approved from $prefix"._cpg_pictures." where approved = 'NO'", $dbi);
         $num = sql_num_rows($res, $dbi);
         echo " | <a href=\"modules.php?name=coppermine&file=editpics&mode=upload_approval\">Gallery: $num</a>\n";
         $res=sql_query("select isapproved from nuke_calendar_events where isapproved = '0'" , $dbi);
         $num = sql_num_rows($res, $dbi);
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=Calendar\">Calendar: $num</a>\n";
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=messages\">AdminMessage</a>\n";
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=Configure\">Configure</a>\n";
         echo " | <a href=\"admin.php?op=logout\">Logout</a>\n\n";
         echo "</font></td>";
   } else {
   echo "";
}

echo "<tr>\n"
. "<td bgcolor=\"#000000\" colspan=\"4\"><IMG src=\"themes/yourtheme/images/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"></td>"
. "</tr>"

. "</table>"

. "</body>"
. "<html>"

?>

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:12 pm

In my opinion, adding a given block codes to theme.php is ok.
However, consider general purpose of themes and blocks. Just assume the following situations:

1. When you change your theme pack, what will be happened?
2. As you are going to log in as an admin, the same code (admin block) and the codes in the theme works in a duplicated way.

Rather than this cluttered proviso, how about using custom_footers ? it will be much better, won't it? Just my suggestion.

Captain Joined: Jan 16, 2004 Posts: 336

yes you are correct. I rarely change my theme and since this doesn't effect the users, I've never given it much thought. This would work equally as well in the footer as you stated. (but then I'd have to scroll to the bottom -- what can I say, that's why I created it, to avoid the scroll)

I'm sure there are several ways to put this in. Just thought I'd share the idea.

Now I have a good hacked center forum block. A very nice amber alert and homeland security threat (but these are in the header.php file also). I can't code but I can hack, it's not pretty but it is functional. Laughing

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:58 pm

That sounds good. Cheer up.

Captain Joined: Jan 16, 2004 Posts: 336

I'm not down and your idea of the footer is an excellant one I had not even considered. I'm sure a lot of users might even prefer that. I've shown this to others who wanted it so I just threw it out to share.

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:04 pm

dant1259 wrote:

I'm not down and...

Ha ha.