[support] issue with forums and my template

[Brett Evanson]

Try this one. Seems the page.tpl.php is aware of $node, but only when it's
viewing a single node page. So the stuff I put in will only take the
sidebars off when it is a single forum node. Haven't tried it, but give it a
whirl and see.

Brett

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Steve Edwards <killshot91 at comcast.net>
wrote:

>  According to Chapter 8 of my handy-dandy 'Pro Drupal Development' book,
> $node is available in page.tpl.php (see top pf page 118).
>
> Steve
>
> Brett Evanson wrote:
>
> you can't add it to your page.tpl file because it isn't aware of $node. if
> you are using pathauto and making all forum topics have a specific prefix,
> you could filter on that prefix, but that would be in the block visibility
> still. If you want to do it in the page.tpl file, you could do something
> like this:
>
> $thenode = node_load(arg(1));
> if($thenode->type != 'forum'){
> //print sidebar
> }
>
> but that is going to cause an extra node to load on the server. not a big
> deal on small sites, but if it gets big, you're going to want to do it
> another way.
>
> Brett
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Mike Johnston <shockedoctopus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the help Brett. Here's what i tried adding to my page.tpl.php
>> and page-front.tpl.php (the bolded area) but it doesn't seem to be working:
>>
>>  <div id="secondary">
>>       <?php if ($sidebar_left_featured) { print "<div
>> class='sidebar-featured'>$sidebar_left_featured</div>"; } ?>
>>       <?php if ($sidebar_left) { print $sidebar_left; } ?>
>>       *<?php if ($node->type == 'forum') return false; ?>*
>>     </div>
>>     <div id="tertiary">
>>       <?php if ($sidebar_right) { print $sidebar_right; } ?>
>>       *<?php if ($node->type == 'forum') return false; ?>*
>>     </div>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Brett Evanson <brettev at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> probably in the block visibility for whatever block you don't want to
>>> show.
>>>
>>> Brett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Mike Johnston <
>>> shockedoctopus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dumb question time (i'm bad with php).. does this go somewhere in my
>>>> page.tpl.php or template.php?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Brett Evanson <brettev at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You could put some logic in your template file to check if the current
>>>>> page is the forum, or you could put logic in the blocks to not show on forum
>>>>> pages. Should be something like
>>>>> if($node->type == 'forum') return false;
>>>>>
>>>>> Brett
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Mike Johnston <
>>>>> shockedoctopus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm using the drupal efficient theme located here: themesnap.com and
>>>>>> whenever i try to go to my forums page, it crams it in the far left column
>>>>>> but leaves the two right sidebars on. Is there a way to remove the sidebars
>>>>>> from this particular view only so that the forums display correctly? You can
>>>>>> see what I mean here: http://shockedoctopus.com/phpbbforum/
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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