home page only sidebox

[Minnie Mouse]

hi there, does anyone know if there are any examples of a sidebox that only shows up on the home page. i know how to build a new box... but i need to know how to write the IF statement to have it only show on the home page.

or if anyone knows how to write it that would be great.

thanks!
Minnie Mouse

[misty]

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...debox+override
Another discussion at url above may help

[Minnie Mouse]

THANKS!
that was exactly what i needed. i did a search and couldnt find it.
MM

[nightsdawn]

I am having the same problem and read the referring thread thoroughly. what I came up with was the following:

if ($_GET['main_page'] == 'index') {
$show_blank_sidebox = true;
} else {
$show_blank_sidebox = false;
}


Which works, however... I Only want this to show on the very very first page. As it stands now, if I click a product category the main page would then look like "index&cPath=2" so the box still shows.

Is there so code to add that makes the index "absolute" or is that even possible. And apologies in advance for replying to such an old post but I wasnt able to find anything else pertaining to this.

Thanks in advance!

[Ajeh]

Perhaps the variable:
$this_is_home_page

if ($this_is_home_page) {
// do something because I am
} else {
// do something else because I ain't
}

would be of help to you ...

[nightsdawn]

Perhaps the variable:
$this_is_home_page

Unfortunetely that didnt work at all. Im a php noob so I wasnt sure what you meant exactly but I tried the below iterations all of which completely disabled the sidebox.

if ($http://www.nativeamericancreations.com) {

if ($http://nativeamericancreations.com) {

if ($nativeamericancreations.com) {

if ($nativeamericancreations) {


  $show_blank_sidebox = true;
} else {
  $show_blank_sidebox = false;
}

[Ajeh]

I was being literal there is a variable literally called:
$this_is_home_page

When on the Home page the variable:
$this_is_home_page

will be true ...

When not on the Home page the variable:
$this_is_home_page

will be false ...

[nightsdawn]

Lol I feel dumb now.... That worked perfectly!

http://nativeamericancreationsandmore.com/

Thank you so much!

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that this worked for you ...

[krazey]

I have a blank sidebox(twitter) and also want it to be only seen on the home page http://www.mydfashop.com/store
I have added $this_is_home_page to my blank_sidebox.php but it didn't work??? Do i need to remove or add anything else???
This is what i had

$this_is_home_page
   
  $show_blank_sidebox = true;
  
  if ($show_blank_sidebox == true) {
      require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_blank_sidebox.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_blank_sidebox.php');
      $title =  BOX_HEADING_BLANK_SIDEBOX;
      $title_link = false;
      require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
 }
?>