[support] issue with forums and my template

[Mike Johnston]

Here's what it looks like, FYI. Tried your page.tpl.php and there was no
change.
You can see my issue here: http://shockedoctopus.com/forum

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Brett Evanson <brettev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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