Fixed size for block-G2_Sidebar.php

mengesb · Beginner Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Posts: 15

So I'm trying to play around with the css themes, and finally have my site engineered the way that I want it to, except the block-G2_Sidebar is pushing things out of proportion to the rest of the site, so I was wondering if there was a way that I could enforce a width of any kind?

I want to prevent it from doing some funky stuff with my CSS designs and themes that I'm downloading.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I just finished integrating and while I don't have anything populated now, I want to start bringing in things shortly. I'm also interested in potentially limiting the size of the Random Image block that I also imported, I don't want that pushing my alignment of the site all over the place. I want to get rid of the extra block bar and lines if possible... I think this will go a long way aesthetically.

Site and info below

~Brian

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Gallery URL: http://www.janetandbrian.info/
PHP-Nuke version: 8.0
Gallery version: 2.2.4
Gallery integration: 0.6.3
Apache version: 2.2.3
PHP version: PHP 5.1.6
Graphics Toolkit: php-gd.i386 5.1.6-15.el5
Operating system: CentOS 5
Web browser/version: Firefox 2.0.0.14

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dari

what do yo uhave in your sidebar? if you've got a thumbnail, the width of the sidebar will be at least the width of the thumbnail.
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mengesb · Beginner Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Posts: 15

dari wrote: › what do yo uhave in your sidebar? if you've got a thumbnail, the width of the sidebar will be at least the width of the thumbnail.

Previously I didn't have the thumbnail, but when I started adding pictures it generated it (the thumbnails were smaller than the width of the other modules on the bar).

It was displaying wider than anything else even when i didn't have pictures loaded, it appears that the width of the G2_Sidebar is just wider than most others in PHP Nuke

dari

in the theme.css file for whatever theme you're using, find:

Code: › #gsSidebar {
border-right-width: 1px;
width: 305px;
overflow: hidden;
}

change the width value there. then flush the theme cache from the g2 admin maintenance page.
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mengesb · Beginner Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Posts: 15

Excellent, thank you, that did it.

Now I'm wondering, in that same file I can modify it so that I don't include extra things like the lines, and the thumbnail right? I like the separate thumbnail block better, and the G2 Sidebar is a bit long, so I wanted to reduce its size for the people administering the Gallery.

Thanks a bunch for that quick fix!

dari

you can use the imageblock instead, so that the sidebar block can be visible only to admins.
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mengesb · Beginner Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Posts: 15

dari wrote: › you can use the imageblock instead, so that the sidebar block can be visible only to admins.

Woudl you know the areas that I can exclude in the block-G2_Sidebar.php file? even as an admin, that block is quite long, and I'd like to remove some of the items in that list, including the random image, separator lines, etc. I imagine some of these can be trimmed by disabling modules/plugins in the base install of Gallery2.

Any other ideas on what's what that I can remove?

dari

all that's done via the themes admin in g2. just de/select whatever you do /don't want to show up in the sidebar.
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mengesb · Beginner Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Posts: 15

dari wrote: › all that's done via the themes admin in g2. just de/select whatever you do /don't want to show up in the sidebar.

Aahh, sorry, haven't messed with G2 that much... been messing with phpnuke code for a while, trying to get what I wanted and here i was looking in the wrong place.

Thanks! I disabled a few unnecessary plugins and removed that nasty random block from the sidebar!