can't get rid of News-Block?

[TauTau]

Hi,

I can't find where to deactivate the News-Block on top of our site (http://www.die-erben-mittelerdes.de). It's currently empty, but there's still the Header. Gotta remove that, need the real estate
That Block usually contains the News from the MainPage Menu. I can't find it under Blocks or anywhere else...

[edit] duh, found it... hardcoded in the theme (or is "toolbar" somewhere to disable?)

[Zetan]

Hi, it's not a block. It's the Forum News. It's a feature of SMF and some themes utilise it and others don't.

Under Current theme: Show News Fader on board index [  ]

[TauTau]

Yup, I deactivated it there, but the theme would ignore it... I commented that out in index.template.php

Code Select Expand


/*   echo '
  <div id="toolbar">
<div id="news">
<h2>', $txt[102], ':</h2>
<p>', $context['random_news_line'], '</p>
</div>
  </div>';
*/


and it was gone. Should I do otherwise?

[Zetan]

Yup, I deactivated it there, but the theme would ignore it... I commented that out in index.template.php


and it was gone. Should I do otherwise?

You've done the right thing, and the reason that the theme ignores that the news has been deactivated is because it's not using the same code that the SMF Default theme News Fader uses, which is:

Code (SMF Default theme News Fader) Select Expand



// Show the news fader?  (assuming there are things to show...)
if ($settings['show_newsfader'] && !empty($context['fader_news_lines']))
{
echo '
<table border="0" width="100%" class="tborder" cellspacing="' , ($context['browser']['is_ie'] || $context['browser']['is_opera6']) ? '1' : '0' , '" cellpadding="4" style="margin-bottom: 2ex;">
<tr>
<td class="catbg"> &nbsp;', $txt[102], '</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="middle" align="center" height="60">';

// Prepare all the javascript settings.
echo '
<div id="smfFadeScroller" style="width: 90%; padding: 2px;"><b>', $context['news_lines'][0], '</b></div>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- // --><![CDATA[
// The fading delay (in ms.)
var smfFadeDelay = ', empty($settings['newsfader_time']) ? 5000 : $settings['newsfader_time'], ';
// Fade from... what text color? To which background color?
var smfFadeFrom = {"r": 0, "g": 0, "b": 0}, smfFadeTo = {"r": 255, "g": 255, "b": 255};
// Surround each item with... anything special?
var smfFadeBefore = "<b>", smfFadeAfter = "</b>";

var foreColor, backEl, backColor;

if (typeof(document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\').currentStyle) != "undefined")
{
foreColor = document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\').currentStyle.color.match(/#([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])/);
smfFadeFrom = {"r": parseInt(foreColor[1]), "g": parseInt(foreColor[2]), "b": parseInt(foreColor[3])};

backEl = document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\');
while (backEl.currentStyle.backgroundColor == "transparent" && typeof(backEl.parentNode) != "undefined")
backEl = backEl.parentNode;

backColor = backEl.currentStyle.backgroundColor.match(/#([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])/);
smfFadeTo = {"r": eval("0x" + backColor[1]), "g": eval("0x" + backColor[2]), "b": eval("0x" + backColor[3])};
}
else if (typeof(window.opera) == "undefined" && typeof(document.defaultView) != "undefined")
{
foreColor = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\'), null).color.match(/rgb\((\d+), (\d+), (\d+)\)/);
smfFadeFrom = {"r": parseInt(foreColor[1]), "g": parseInt(foreColor[2]), "b": parseInt(foreColor[3])};

backEl = document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\');
while (document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(backEl, null).backgroundColor == "transparent" && typeof(backEl.parentNode) != "undefined" && typeof(backEl.parentNode.tagName) != "undefined")
backEl = backEl.parentNode;

backColor = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(backEl, null).backgroundColor.match(/rgb\((\d+), (\d+), (\d+)\)/);
smfFadeTo = {"r": parseInt(backColor[1]), "g": parseInt(backColor[2]), "b": parseInt(backColor[3])};
}

// List all the lines of the news for display.
var smfFadeContent = new Array(
"', implode('",
"', $context['fader_news_lines']), '"
);
// ]]></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="', $settings['default_theme_url'], '/fader.js"></script>
</td>
</tr>
</table>';
}




Slightly different