Hide left blocks only in Articles

viper155 · Regular Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 99

Is there a way to just hide the left blocks in the read more page, Article.php Im guessing?

Im asking bc the search engines seem to index my left block nav menu instead of the actualy story text.

Thanks.

FireATST · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:26 am

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Check that post. Not sure if that will give you any help or not.

viper155 · Regular Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 99

Quote:

written by manunkind Another quick question.....how do I remove these left blocks only when I am reading an article? I know I can add "News" to my above code, but that removes them from the home page as well. I want them there, but not when I click to read a full article.

Any ideas?

This guy asked the same question and there was no answer as to how he was able to do this, but did say he got it working.

montego · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:25 am

You could possibly do something like this. In the original post reference above from Raven, he has this:

Code:

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

Try this:

Code:

if ($name=="News" && $file="article") {}
else blocks(left);

You will also have to add $file to the globals statement above this.

viper155 · Regular Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 99

This is what my code looks like in theme.php

Code:

global $name, $file;
if ($name=='Forums') {}
else if ($name=="News" && $file="article") {}
else {
blocks(left);

It is still removing the left blocks on the homepage as well. Sad

montego · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:30 pm

viper155, can you please zip up your entire theme directory for this theme and send it to me at montego AT montegoscipts DOT com and I'll take a look at it when I get a chance.

gregexp · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:21 pm

Try Changing it to this:

global $name, $file;
if ($name=='Forums') {}
else if ($name=="News" && $file="article" && !defined('HOME_FILE')) {}
else {
blocks(left);

The !defined HOME_FILE references a definition set in index.php of your site which should resolve your issue.

viper155 · Regular Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 99

It works perfectly Gregexp, also would like to thank everyone else in this thread for trying to help me.

viper155 · Regular Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 99

Kinda bumping my own post from a while ago to attempt to get a new problem solved, hope this is okay instead of starting a new post.

I am using the theme CT_RN which came with the new revennuke and its very very nice I must stay. The theme I use to use had a different theme.php file setup and I was able to hide left blocks only on the article part of the news module using this code:

Code:

global $name, $file;

if ($name=='Forums') {}

else if ($name=='Amazon') {}

else if ($name=='Content') {}

else if ($name=="News" && $file="article" && !defined('HOME_FILE')) {}

else {

blocks(left);

Now on the theme CT_RN the theme.php file is setup like this for hiding blocks

Code:

// Column 1 (left)
if (($module_name != 'Forums') AND ($module_name !='Your_Account') AND ($module_name !='Journal') AND ($module_name !='TTBO') AND ($module_name !='Topics') AND ($module_name !='Private_Messages') AND ($module_name !='Youtube_Videos') AND ($module_name !='Members_List')):
echo '<div class="col1">';

Does anyone know how I fix this

Code:

else if ($name=="News" && $file="article" && !defined('HOME_FILE')) {}

to work for the CT_RN type of theme.php?

*EDITED* Figures I post that and then it gets figured out. Just in case someone else has this problem this is how the code should look to do what I explained above.

Code:

// Column 1 (left)
if (($module_name != 'Forums') AND ($module_name !='Your_Account') AND ($module_name !='Journal') AND ($module_name !='TTBO') AND ($module_name !='Topics') AND ($module_name !='Private_Messages') AND ($module_name !='Youtube_Videos') AND ($module_name !='Members_List') AND ($module_name ='News' AND $file != 'article'):
echo '<div class="col1">';