The title at the top of center blocks

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:57 am

Ok I dont know if this is the correct place or not. But here goes. The title image of my center blocks is coded into the mainfile.php file like this below. I want to be able to do the same thing at the bottom of each center block. And also be able to add text. I hope this makes sense. If not please contact me and I will try and explain it better. Also I am using ravenscripts version of nuke if that helps. Version 2.02.02

Below is the snippet of code from my mainfile.php file

Code:

}





if(!function_exists("themecenterbox")) {


  function themecenterbox($title, $content) {


    OpenTable();


      echo "<div align=\"center\" style=\"width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;background-image: url(http://www.phantom309drivers.org/themes/DeepBlue/images/table-title.gif);\"><font class=\"option\"><b style=\"color:#FFF;\">$title</b></font></div>".$content;


    CloseTable();


    echo "<br>";


  }


}

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:07 am

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Just to let you know yes we are here but I have not responded because that would be (to me at least) a pretty major hack, and beyound my current Nuke knowlage. I am sure someone with more experance will jump in here soon, but it isn't a quick one liner fix.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:41 am

Well I am thinking aloud as I write this. We know that blocks, thru blocks administration, can be positioned left, right, center, and down. And you can have any number of blocks in the center, in a specified order. So you want your title to appear above the first center block and below the last one. Now, a theme generally processes the header information, then does a blocks, left to process the left hand "column" (which can contain number of blocks) then the center, then the right (if $index_file is on), and finally the footer.

With that background you'd want your theme to put your $title at the end of the header before it does blocks('l') (that's left and it is coded variously (which drives me up the wall) as left or LEFT or L or l). Then at the beginning of the footer you'd want your theme to output another title that would thereby go at the end of the center blocks.

With that in mind, what I'd probably do is put a call to themecenterbox after assigning values to $title and $content towards the bottom of the themeheader function and then at the top of the themefooter functions. Thinking further, I might be cautious and use variables other than $title and $content (something like $title_center ... ) because those variables are used extensively in Nuke and you wouldn't want to affect anything else.

Give it a try and let us know if it works.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:04 am

That code that you show is only used if your theme does not provide it's own themecenterbox() function. It is a default implementation (notice the if not exists check). I think you can get what you want by modifying your theme's themecenterbox() function.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:13 pm

The code that I am showing is not even close to the original code in the mainfile.php file. I do not think i was clear in my explanation. Here is a picture of what i want to add. The part that i need coded is the bottom part circled in red. And I have no clue as to how to code that in. Plus I am sure it involves more than just adding some code to the mainfile.php file. As you would also need to be able to edit it also.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:47 pm

There are a number of variables passed the function themeindex of your theme.php
That's probably the best example to start

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:19 am

I'm confused. You are talking about center blocks but then you are showing a news story. If you want your center blocks to look like news stories, then yes, as evaders said, check out the themeindex() function. It is responsible for formatting news stories.....or why not just post News stories? Again, I'm confused.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:43 am

A couple of quick points. I've been working with themes quite a bit in RN lately and I don't recall any themecenterbox functions in any of the standard ones. That's why I posted what I did a few back. If you do a news story then it's going to "float" down the page as soon as a newer one is posted so it won't do what you want. You could stuff the material in the message cause that will stay up top but that doesn't deal with the bottom centered material.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:27 pm

Okay I am less confused now. (Hmmmm....maybe not.)

If your theme provides a themecenterbox() function, Nuke will call it. Otherwise it calls the default one in mainfile.php.

So JTD, your best bet is to start working on a themecenterbox() function (adding one to your theme if it doesn't already exist). I'm not sure how you are going to get the date/time when the center block was created, since that is currently not stored anywhere to my knowledge. If you really needed that you would probably have to add a database table to store that info. You would then need to retrieve that and send it to your fancy themecenterbox() function. But then you are creeping in on the functionality already offerred by the news module. Maybe you are better off modifying your news module to not scroll certain news stories down.

Or, maybe you could just use HTML in your center block to produce that "bottom info bar".