Hide What's New and Best Sellers Sideboxes

[misty]

Turn them off via admin, tools, layout controller.
Images....use Banner Box or install blank sidebox
or logo sidebox mod/s from Free Software Addons...
Link top left of this page

[AirsoftOutfitter]

Turn them off via admin, tools, layout controller.
Images....use Banner Box or install blank sidebox
or logo sidebox mod/s from Free Software Addons...
Link top left of this page

If I turn them off then they are turned off for every page, I only want them turned off for the home page. How is this done

[misty]

Scroll down to foot of this page....previous threads asking
similar i.e.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52941

[AirsoftOutfitter]

Scroll down to foot of this page....previous threads asking
similar i.e.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52941

Thanks for the reference, but still doesn't seem to do what I am wanting to accomplish. If I do this approach it get's rid of the entire sidebox column. I want the column on the right, just no "Best Seller" & What's New Sideboxs

[Ajeh]

Using your templates and overrides, customize the best_sellers.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off best sellers on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_best_sellers= false;
}  
// eof: turn off best sellers on home page

  if ($show_best_sellers == true) {

Customize the whats_new.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off whats_new on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_whats_new= false;
} else {
    $show_whats_new= true;
}
// eof: turn off whats_new on home page

// display limits

and then lower in the code:

  if ($show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

[AirsoftOutfitter]

Using your templates and overrides, customize the best_sellers.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off best sellers on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_best_sellers= false;
}  
// eof: turn off best sellers on home page

  if ($show_best_sellers == true) {

Customize the whats_new.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off whats_new on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_whats_new= false;
} else {
    $show_whats_new= true;
}
// eof: turn off whats_new on home page

// display limits

and then lower in the code:

  if ($show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

I did as you said, but they are still on? The directory I altered the files in was:

mysite.com/mytemplate/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

is this correct?

If I add the code you metioned further down it shuts everything off on all the pages...$show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

[Ajeh]

If you just do the Best Sellers sidebox ... does that work correctly?

[AirsoftOutfitter]

I did as you said, but the "whats_new" is still on? The directory I altered the files in was:

mysite.com/mytemplate/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

is this correct?

If I add the code you mentioned further down in the "whats_new" file it shuts everything off on all the pages...$show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

[dysfunctional]

Using your templates and overrides, customize the best_sellers.php sidebox with the code in red:
[CODE]
// bof: turn off best sellers on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) {
$show_best_sellers= false;
}
// eof: turn off best sellers on home page

if ($show_best_sellers == true) {

Hi Ajeh, thanks for your code suggestion, I also wanted to hide the bestsellers sidebox on my home page and the solution above worked fine. However, I just realized that I would prefer to have it shown only during product listing. So the customer easily can see the most sold products in the current category the customer is vewing. So I want to hide the bestsellers sidebox on for example "index.php?main_page=logoff", "index.php?main_page=reviews", "index.php?main_page=specials" etc... would love to see a code example where I can add the pages where I don't want the sidebox to show. Could use this for other sideboxes as well.

Thanks!

Best regards

Peter

[Ajeh]

You could use:

// bof: turn off best sellers except for listing
if ($_GET['main_page'] != 'index') {
  $show_best_sellers= false;
}
// eof: turn off best sellers except for listing