Removing News Topic Images to give more space

New Member Joined: Jul 02, 2007 Posts: 14

Im Wondering if there is anyway to turn off the topic images that display when i post news on my main page to Save space on the page??? please help!

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:05 pm

the main problem is my site is streched out and i want it all to fit on the screen. you can see what im talking about here [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:59 pm

I believe you could modify your theme to not output the topic image tag.

You might want to change the subject of your post to something more relating to your problem as per the forum rules.

Involved Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 263

sorry for jumping in,

where would you make the edit/s (which file/s) to make the pictures fit right. and not put the width over the edge of the screen (mainly firefox)I.E is`nt too bad at keeping it ok. (for a change lol)

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:16 pm

Modify the functions themeindex() and themearticle() in themes/<yourtheme>/theme.php. You can see they are responsible for outputing news articles on the home page and with the "read more" link, respectively. They generate the HTML, including the <img> tags for the topics.

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:43 am

Gremmie wrote:

Modify the functions themeindex() and themearticle() in themes/<yourtheme>/theme.php. You can see they are responsible for outputing news articles on the home page and with the "read more" link, respectively. They generate the HTML, including the <img> tags for the topics.

i will try that thanks buddy Very Happy

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:46 am

so should i just erase this part

if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage")) {
$t_image = "themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage";

Client Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Posts: 28

to test it, you should consider putting some comment tags around the code.

Code:

/* if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage")) { 


$t_image = "themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage"; */

Although you will need to expand on that code since you will recieve and error if you only delete that

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:27 am

xblader wrote:

to test it, you should consider putting some comment tags around the code.

Code:

/* if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage")) { 


$t_image = "themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage"; */

Although you will need to expand on that code since you will recieve and error if you only delete that

What do you mean expand on? im not to good with php

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:35 am

the selection of code is missing an end tag such as }. So by deleting the those 2 lines will leave that curly bracer there and throw up an error, however it probably easier if you can copy and past the whole code and we can then tell you what to delete.

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:39 am

ok heres the whole theme.php file:
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:21 am

Try replacing the following code below, i've have commented out the two Topic images, however i'm not sure if this will work. iirc there some coding in the index.php within the modules/news/ folder that actully displays the image. Also anther method you can try is to make a 1x1 image and replace the topic image with that. (With the topic image being the same color as your background, so it will not be visable.) Also i would post the whole file but the forums is blocking it.

Code:







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


/* Function themeindex()                                    */


/* This function format the stories on the Homepage         */


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


function themeindex ($aid, $informant, $time, $title, $counter, $topic, $thetext, $notes, $morelink, $topicname, $topicimage, $topictext) {


    global $anonymous, $tipath;





$ThemeSel = get_theme();


   /* if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage")) {


        $t_image = "themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage";


    } else {


        $t_image = "$tipath$topicimage";


} */

















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


/* Function themeindex()                                    */


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





function themearticle ($aid, $informant, $datetime, $title, $thetext, $topic, $topicname, $topicimage, $topictext) {


    global $admin, $sid, $tipath;


$ThemeSel = get_theme();


   /* if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage")) {


        $t_image = "themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage";


    } else {


        $t_image = "$tipath$topicimage";


}*/

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:24 am

No, you will have to look further down where the theme is outputing the <img> tag for the topic icon. You'll want to remove those echo statements.