Show/Hide sideboxes based on page

[Ajeh]

You could add a trigger to the reviews sidebox that it only displays if there is a products_id defined ...

However ... on the product _info pages the review sidebox is showing reviews just for the given product and if there are no reviews it shows write a review ...

Is that what you are wanting?

[Svanis]

That is exactly what I want..

[Ajeh]

Look at the other sideboxes and many have a setting for when to show the sidebox, example, /includes/modules/sideboxes/featured.php uses:

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

Then there is an IF statement surrounding the whole content that starts with:

  if ($show_featured == true) { 

You would make something similar where the IF would test for the existance of the products_id ... if > 0 set the show to true ... if <= 0 set the show to false ...

Now it only shows the reviews sidebox when there is a products_id and that only exists when on the product _info page ...

[Svanis]

Thank you Linda!

It was a little bit to do but now it seems to work just fine..

If anyone is interested, this is what I did:
I inserted this

  $show_review= false;

  if (isset($_GET['products_id']) and zen_products_id_valid($_GET['products_id'])) {
    if (!($_GET['main_page']==FILENAME_REVIEWS)) $show_review = true;
  }
  if ($show_review == true) {

above

  $review_status = " and r.status = 1 ";

and finished it of with a

}

before

?>

It's possible this isn't the way to do it but hey! It worked!

[Boggled]

Okay...I'm totally confused (as usual ).

I have the Quick Order mod installed and I want to turn off all the sideboxes for this page only.

What do I need to do to accomplish this?

I did it on my 1.2.7 cart by creating an override tpl_main_page.php file in my quick_order folder, BUT the older file looks nothing like my new file and I can't figure out what I need to change.

So far, I made a copy of the tpl_main_page.php file and put it in my custom templates. But everything I've tried to 'un-comment' has caused a page error.

[DrByte]

I have the Quick Order mod installed and I want to turn off all the sideboxes for this page only.

What do I need to do to accomplish this?

...

So far, I made a copy of the tpl_main_page.php file and put it in my custom templates.

add this:

$flag_disable_left = true;
 $flag_disable_right = true;

right above this:

   $header_template = 'tpl_header.php';
  $footer_template = 'tpl_footer.php';

[Boggled]

PERFECT!! Now I can link directly from the description of my eBay auction to my Quick Order page.

DrByte you are the best!

[MeltDown]

I see that this thread is from early October, at least a version or two back. In viewing the tpl_main_page.php it seems that the capability of commenting out sideboxes is built it.

However, I'm having a difficult time getting things set properly so as to not disrupt other pages. What I would like to do is turn off the sideboxes on the homepage only. Can anyone tell me what the procedure is?

Thanks so much!!

Tim

[kuroi]

Create an over-ride file for common/tpl_main_page.php and insert the following block of code at around line 45-46

if ($this_is_home_page == true) {

$flag_disable_left = true;
$flag_disable_right = true;

}

[MeltDown]

Create an over-ride file for common/tpl_main_page.php and insert the following block of code at around line 45-46

That did it!! Thanks Kuroi