Sidebox Customization

[autoace]

Trying to use this zc tutorial to have only certain sideboxes show on my checkout page (also have numinix's Fast and Easy Checkout mod) installed.

I'm switching out $show_featured in the tutorial with what I believe to be the correct name for the variable and it doesn't seem to be working as should. The sideboxes show up on all pages.

I'm trying to accomplish this with the shopping cart, information and create account sideboxes. Any ideas?

[gjh42]

What variable names are you using for the boxes? What are those box ids in view source? What test code are you using (give full example)?

[autoace]

What variable names are you using for the boxes? What are those box ids in view source? What test code are you using (give full example)?

For the information sidebox:

if ($this_is_checkout_page) {
$show_information = true;
} else {
$show_information = false;
}

For the shopping cart sidebox:
if ($this_is_checkout_page) {
$show_shopping_cart_box = true;
} else {
$show_shopping_cart_box = false;
}

and the create account sidebox:
if ($this_is_checkout_page) {
$show_create_account = true;
} else {
$show_create_account = false;
}

I have the files installed in includes/modules/sideboxes/MY_TEMPLATE

[gjh42]

$this_is_xxx only exists for the home page. Others need to be tested for like

if($current_page_base == 'checkout_shipping') {
or
if(in_array($current_page_base, explode(',','checkout_shipping,checkout_payment,checkout_success'))) {

Look at the "main_page=xxx" in the address bar when on the page to get the exact id to use.

[autoace]

also the ids in view source are:

shoppingcart, information

I can not get the create account sidebox to show, so I'm not sure of the id.

[gjh42]

Actually, the sidebox ids do not really matter for this purpose (aside from settings not interfering with each other); whatever variable name you use for $show_yyy just needs to be carried through in the rest of that file.

[autoace]

OK, I've tried testing all 3 code scenarios:

//if ($this_is_checkout_page) {
//if($current_page_base == 'checkout') {
if(in_array($current_page_base, explode(',','checkout'))) {
$show_information = true;
} else {
$show_information = false;
}

I looked at the url:
https://www.mydomain.com/testsite/in...ut&action=null

and put 'checkout' accordingly.

Still doesn't work, am I missing something?

Should I try clearing my browser's cache?