[support] issue with forums and my template

[Mike Johnston]

the link i should have sent is http://shockedoctopus.com/uieforum

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Mike Johnston <shockedoctopus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.comand 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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>> 801-599-0584
>>
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