Turn off categories sidebox for ==Main_Pages?

[obrien48]

Hi All,

I'm looking to turn off my categories sidebox for my main_pages==

I have ez pages set for my products just don't want the categories sidebox to display when a user jumps to the other info, can some one help me with the code for this please, I was trying to rework a piece of code as below but got nowhere.

Here is a link to my site:http://www.crearty-kids.co.uk/creativity

Here is the code I was looking to rework - it was for banner box 2 (although there may be an easier way!)

// test if box should display
$show_banner_box2 = true;
if (SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET8 == '') {
$show_banner_box2 = false;
}

// do not show if on advanced_search page
if ($current_page_base == 'advanced_search') {
$show_banner_box2 = false;
echo 'I am hiding!!' . $current_page_base;
}

if ($show_banner_box2 == true) {
$banner_box[] = TEXT_BANNER_BOX2;
$banner_box_group= SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET8;

require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_banner_box2.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_banner_box2.php');

// if no active banner in the specified banner group then the box will not show
// uses banners in the defined group $banner_box_group
if ($banner->RecordCount() > 0) {

$title = BOX_HEADING_BANNER_BOX2;
$title_link = false;
require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
}
}

[tony_sar]

if you need to turn off the column you can follow this tutorial

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=233

if you need to turn off specific sidebox only follow this

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=270

[obrien48]

Many thanks for your help but I've managed to completely break it now!

Can you take a look for me please

What I am trying to achieve is to only show the categories sidebox on the three ezpages links I have set as my main nav and then it switches off when user goes to shipping info or any other 'defines page editor' page.

The code I have for the categories side box (module) is now:

<?php
/**
* categories sidebox - prepares content for the main categories sidebox
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: categories.php 2718 2005-12-28 06:42:39Z drbyte $
*/

$main_category_tree = new category_tree;
$row = 0;
$box_categories_array = array();

if ($main_page=index&cPath='1,2,3,4') {
$show_categories = true;
} else {
$show_categories = false;



// don't build a tree when no categories
$check_categories = $db->Execute("select categories_id from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " where categories_status=1 limit 1");
if ($check_categories->RecordCount() > 0) {
$box_categories_array = $main_category_tree->zen_category_tree();
}



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);

}

?>


Many thanks in advance,
Alan

[usernamenone]

includes>templates>your template>templates>tpl_index_default.php

Just after the <div class="centerColumn" id="indexDefault">
add this line

if (in_array($current_page_base,explode(",",'indexHome')) ) {
$flag_disable_left = true;

this takes it off the index page. what other pages do you want it removed from?