Suppress Sideboxes Question

[HelenSama]

Hello,

I am trying to I want to suppress the display of the categories sidebox on all but two of the pages in my site. I found this article/tutorial --- I want to suppress the display of some of my sideboxes on my front page, but still have them show on all other pages here https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=270 and I have got it working so that the sidebox doesn't display on the home page, but I do not know how to refer to any other pages on the site.

This is the code I put in:

// test if box should display
$show_categories= true;

if ($this_is_home_page) {
$show_categories = false;
} else {
$show_categories = true;
}

if ($show_categories == true)

Here is the site I am working on:

http://peterfasano.com/zen/

I only want the categories sidebox to appear on the Fabrics and Wallcoverings pages. How do I change the ($this_is_home_page) to refer to all the other pages, except for the two where I want the sidebox to display?

Thank you!

[wilt]

Try this as your test for setting $show_categories

if ((isset($_GET['main_page']) && $_GET['main_page'] == 'index') && (isset($_GET['cPath']) && ($_GET['cPath'] == '1' || $_GET['cPath'] == '2'))) 
{
  $show_categories = TRUE;
} else 
{
  $show_categories = FALSE;
} 

[jwitt98]

If you only want the categories sidebox to display on category and product pages you might try:

if ((isset($_GET['cPath']))&& ($_GET['cPath'] != 3)){
    require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_categories.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_categories.php');

    $title = BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES;
    $title_link = false;

    require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
    } 

Which is based on this tutorial:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=249


You can use this :

&& ($_GET['cPath'] != 3 

to exlude whatever other pages that you don't want the categories sidebox to display on.

You'll have to test this out yourself. No guarantees here.

[HelenSama]

Hello, Thank you both for replying, I tried what Wilt suggested and it works... so this is great1 I don't know if what jwitt98 suggested works, I had looked at that tutorial also while I was trying to figure out how to do this, but I wasn't sure if it would work because although I have the pages set up as EZ pages, the pages I want the sidebox to appear on are not really ez pages, they are category/product pages. Thanks!

[jwitt98]

I didn't see Wilt's post until after I had already submitted mine.
Glad you got it working

[wilt]

Theres always more than one way of doing something.

Thats the good thing about this forum. lots of different ideas about how to do solve a problem.

[WriteAtHome]

Thank you so much for this thread! I've been looking for several days and finally found this post and the answer to my question. Kudos to Wilt.

Kim