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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 01, 2004 - 07:16 AM

  OK, I have the following code in my theme that allows me to remove left blocks when launching the forum module"
  
  

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  if (pnModGetName() != 'PNphpBB2')
      {
  
      blocks('left');
      }

  
  
  What I'm not sure about is how to add other modules into the selection. I know it should be fairly simple.

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• nate_02631
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 01, 2004 - 09:21 AM

  An easy way to do it would be:
  

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  if ($GLOBALS['ModName'] == 'ThisModule" || $GLOBALS['ModName'] == 'ThatModule') {
      blocks('left');
  }

  
  The double-pipe indicating "OR"...
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 01, 2004 - 10:31 AM

  I tried several variations on that and it didn't work. The closest I got was this:
  
  

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  if ($GLOBALS['ModName'] != 'PNphpBB2') {
      blocks('left');
  }

  
  If I added the pipes and additional item, the first item would quit working. Using your code as is (changing module names), no left blocks showed up.

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• nate_02631
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 01, 2004 - 10:58 AM

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  if ($GLOBALS['ModName'] != 'ThisModule" && $GLOBALS['ModName'] != 'ThatModule') {
      blocks('left');
  }

  
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 02, 2004 - 07:38 AM

  I must be dense because it's still not working. I know I have the module names correct because it works when I do it on individual modules, even with your code but the minute I add multiple modules it either affects every module and removes the left blocks completely or works on none of the modules.

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• nate_02631
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 02, 2004 - 07:51 AM

  Not dense, but perhaps you should consider a PHP primer before proceeding...
  
  The above code states if the module name *doesn't* equal ThisModule *AND* doesn't equal ThatModule, then show the left blocks.... Perhaps you want to change it to *OR*
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 03, 2004 - 02:26 AM

  Tried that actually. I've tried a number of variations and have been using the PHP manual as reference. I've been trying a number of different ways of doing it but can't seem to find one that works when adding multiples. I'll admit, I'm not a very good PHP writer and in fact, couldn't write anything from scratch, but I can usually pick things apart and figure out what they are doing. Just seem to be having problems getting this too work.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 03, 2004 - 02:28 AM

  Well, I did get the following to work, but it seems extremely sloppy. Gotta be a cleaner way of writing it:
  
  

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  if (pnModGetName() != 'PNphpBB2')
      {
      if (pnModGetName() != 'My_eGallery')
      {
      if (pnModGetName() != 'My_eReference')
      {
      blocks('left');
      }
      }
  }

  
  
  Sorry to be such a pest. I'm going to continue looking at it for a more efficient way of writing it as well.

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• nate_02631
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 03, 2004 - 02:54 AM

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  if ($GLOBALS['ModName'] != 'PNphpBB2' && $GLOBALS['ModName'] != 'My_eGallery' && $GLOBALS['ModName'] != 'My_eReference') {
      blocks('left');
  }

  
  Will work for *not* showing blocks on either of the above modules, it's pretty simple PHP logic, really...
  
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  Posted: Mar 04, 2004 - 04:16 AM

  A teeney tiny little sugestion: don't use || or &&. Instead, use | or &. The difference is the single character makes use of a "short-circuited" operator. With &, as soon as you get a false, it stops evaluating the expression and returns false. With |, a true value makes it immediately evaluate to true. This can save evaluating the second operator, which is a bit more efficient. However, if you have values that change during evaluation (for instance, an i++ type expression) short-circuiting could be veeeery dangerous. Would it evaluate and change the value? Beats me. I'm guessing it might not.
  
  At any rate, I'm a fan of the short circuit. Give it a try.
  
  Frank

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 04, 2004 - 05:08 AM

  I'm going to try that as I haven't been able to get the above code to work.

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