Removing Blocks?

nick020 · Beginner Joined: May 30, 2005 Posts: 10

How can I turn off or remove the Related Links block, Article Rating and options block in the news pages? I can't find it in the admin block section.

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dari · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Removing Blocks?

you have to delete those portions of the code from the News module php files.
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nick020 · Beginner Joined: May 30, 2005 Posts: 10

Can you show me what text I need to remove?

dari · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: Removing Blocks?

in articles.php:

PHP: ›

<?php $boxtitle = ""._RELATED."";

$boxstuff = "<font class=\"content\">";

$result8 = $db->sql_query("select name, url from ".$prefix."_related where tid='$topic'");

while ($row8 = $db->sql_fetchrow($result8)) {

    $name = stripslashes($row8['name']);

    $url = stripslashes($row8['url']);

    $boxstuff .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"$url\" target=\"new\">$name</a><br>\n";

}



$boxstuff .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"modules.php?name=Search&amp;topic=$topic\">"._MOREABOUT." $topictext</a><br>\n";

$boxstuff .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"modules.php?name=Search&amp;author=$aid\">"._NEWSBY." $aid</a>\n";



$boxstuff .= "</font><br><hr noshade width=\"95%\" size=\"1\"><center><font class=\"content\"><b>"._MOSTREAD." $topictext:</b><br>\n";



global $multilingual, $currentlang;

    if ($multilingual == 1) {

    $querylang = "AND (alanguage='$currentlang' OR alanguage='')"; /* the OR is needed to display stories who are posted to ALL languages */

    } else {

    $querylang = "";

    }

$row9 = $db->sql_fetchrow($db->sql_query("select sid, title from ".$prefix."_stories where topic='$topic' $querylang order by counter desc limit 0,1"));

$topstory = intval($row9['sid']);

$ttitle = stripslashes(check_html($row9['title'], "nohtml"));



$boxstuff .= "<a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&file=article&sid=$topstory\">$ttitle</a></font></center><br>\n";

themesidebox($boxtitle, $boxstuff);



if ($ratings != 0) {

    $rate = substr($score / $ratings, 0, 4);

    $r_image = round($rate);

    if ($r_image == 1) {

            $the_image = "<br><br><img src=\"images/articles/stars-1.gif\" border=\"1\"></center><br>";

    } elseif ($r_image == 2) {

            $the_image = "<br><br><img src=\"images/articles/stars-2.gif\" border=\"1\"></center><br>";

    } elseif ($r_image == 3) {

            $the_image = "<br><br><img src=\"images/articles/stars-3.gif\" border=\"1\"></center><br>";

    } elseif ($r_image == 4) {

            $the_image = "<br><br><img src=\"images/articles/stars-4.gif\" border=\"1\"></center><br>";

    } elseif ($r_image == 5) {

            $the_image = "<br><br><img src=\"images/articles/stars-5.gif\" border=\"1\"></center><br>";

    }

} else {

    $rate = 0;

    $the_image = "</center><br>";

}



$ratetitle = ""._RATEARTICLE."";

$ratecontent = "<center>"._AVERAGESCORE.": <b>$rate</b><br>"._VOTES.": <b>$ratings</b>$the_image";

$ratecontent .= "<form action=\"modules.php?name=$module_name\" method=\"post\"><center>"._RATETHISARTICLE."</center><br>";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sid\" value=\"$sid\">";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"op\" value=\"rate_article\">";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"score\" value=\"5\"> <img src=\"images/articles/stars-5.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\""._EXCELLENT."\" title=\""._EXCELLENT."\"><br>";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"score\" value=\"4\"> <img src=\"images/articles/stars-4.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\""._VERYGOOD."\" title=\""._VERYGOOD."\"><br>";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"score\" value=\"3\"> <img src=\"images/articles/stars-3.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\""._GOOD."\" title=\""._GOOD."\"><br>";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"score\" value=\"2\"> <img src=\"images/articles/stars-2.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\""._REGULAR."\" title=\""._REGULAR."\"><br>";

$ratecontent .= "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"score\" value=\"1\"> <img src=\"images/articles/stars-1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\""._BAD."\" title=\""._BAD."\"><br><br>";

$ratecontent .= "<center><input type=\"submit\" value=\""._CASTMYVOTE."\"></center></form>";

themesidebox($ratetitle, $ratecontent);

$optiontitle = ""._OPTIONS."";

$optionbox = "<br>";

$optionbox .= "&nbsp;<img src='images/print.gif' border='0' alt='"._PRINTER."' title='"._PRINTER."'> <a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&amp;file=print&amp;sid=$sid\">"._PRINTER."</a><br><br>";

$optionbox .= "&nbsp;<img src='images/friend.gif' border='0' alt='"._FRIEND."' title='"._FRIEND."'> <a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&amp;file=friend&amp;op=FriendSend&amp;sid=$sid\">"._FRIEND."</a><br><br></center>\n";

if (is_admin($admin)) {

    $optionbox .= "<center><b>"._ADMIN."</b><br>[ <a href=\"".$admin_file.".php?op=adminStory\">"._ADD."</a> | <a href=\"".$admin_file.".php?op=EditStory&sid=$sid\">"._EDIT."</a> | <a href=\"".$admin_file.".php?op=RemoveStory&sid=$sid\">"._DELETE."</a> ]<br><br></center>";

}

themesidebox($optiontitle, $optionbox); ?>

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nick020 · Beginner Joined: May 30, 2005 Posts: 10

Thanks.