show sidebox on pages other than homepage

Hi I tried following this tutorial but doing it in reverse to show a sidebox on everything other than my homepage. But it doesn't seem to work.
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=270

I tried it with the blank sidebox module here
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=174

the module works find as it is when I download it.

the code of the default blank_sidebox.php is

<?php
/**
 * blank sidebox - allows a blank sidebox to be added to your site
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright 2007 Kuroi Web Design
  * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: blank_sidebox.php 2007-05-26 kuroi $
 */

  // test if box should display
  $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);
 }
?>

I tried to alter it following the tutorial to this

<?php
/**
 * blank sidebox - allows a blank sidebox to be added to your site
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright 2007 Kuroi Web Design
  * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: blank_sidebox.php 2007-05-26 kuroi $
 */

  // test if box should display
  if ($this_is_home_page) {
    $show_blank_sidebox == false;
  } else {
    $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);
 }
?>

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong?

The way this is written:

  // test if box should display
  if ($this_is_home_page) {
// I am on the home page
    $show_blank_sidebox == false;
// false meanse do not show
  } else {
// I am not on the home page
    $show_blank_sidebox == true;
// true means show it
  }

Yes I wanted to show it on pages that are not the homepage?

I admit I know nothing at all about php, just thought it seemed logical.

IF you set it to false for when $this_is_home_page is true then it will not show on the Home page ...

Make sure that you are uploading the file to the right directory after making your changes ... :smile:

So the code above is right for what I want it to do and should work?

Thanks for your help.

Here's how it's done for the Categories box. You should be able to adapt it to other sideboxes.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121318

Compare it to the stock categories box code to see what's been added.

Mostly, you're just wrapping the sidebox code in an "if - else" statement.

Thanks, I got it to work with this. Altough I still don't understand why the first one didn't work.

<?php
/**
 * blank sidebox - allows a blank sidebox to be added to your site
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright 2007 Kuroi Web Design
  * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @license [url]http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt[/url] GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: blank_sidebox.php 2007-05-26 kuroi $
 */

  // test if box should display
  if ($this_is_home_page) {
    $show_blank_sidebox == false;
  } else {
      require($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);
 }
?>