Blocks and menus

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 190

Hello all I was wondering if I can get php to look like this?http://mmorpg.com
I would like news to be on the left then a column for events, calendar, and polls, and the far right to display banners. Is this possible anbd how might I go about doing it. Thanks

Nuke Soldier Joined: Sep 03, 2003 Posts: 16

Thats a pretty cool looking site! Im guessing it is just a theme modification. This post is more of a bump than anything i suppose..

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 190

I'd like to move the left blocks near the right blocks and move the news....the middle block over to the left. Any suggestions on how I do this. Thanks in advance.

Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:22 pm

Post your theme.php file.

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 190

Hi Xyberian,
My theme.php is very different.

I wanted to know how you would do it with a clean theme.php file

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

-Lady Cherry

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 190

Anyone have any ideas on this? It would really help!

Thank you
-Lady Cherry

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12482

You would have to do some changes to the theme.php
Move the blocks(); functions around to match where you want to display

Depending on how your theme is coded, you may need to edit the appropriate header.html, footer.html, and other files

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 190

on the default DeepBlue theme where would I move the blocks to have both the left and right block be on the right and the news and forums on the left?

Any help is much appreciated!

-Lady Cherry

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:33 pm

http://mmorpg.com is not a phpnuke website, but you can do something like that with your DeepBlue theme like this ....

In themes/DeepBlue/theme.php

Find and delete (in themeheader() function):

Code:

blocks(left);

Find:

Code:

Replace with:

Code:

function themefooter() {
global $index;
echo "<br>";
echo "</td><td><img src=\"themes/DeepBlue/images/pixel.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"138\" bgcolor=\"d3e2ea\">\n";
echo "<td valign='top'>";
blocks(left);
echo "</td>";
if ($index == 1) {
echo "<td valign='top'>";
blocks(right);
echo "</td>";
}
echo "<td><img src=\"themes/DeepBlue/images/pixel.gif\" width=\"6\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">";
echo "<br><br></td></tr></table>\n"
."<br><center>";
footmsg();
echo "</center>";
}

That will cause your theme to display the left and right blocks on the right-hand side of the center content. So, the center content will essentially become your left blocks.

Note:
Very Happy

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:59 pm

You could also have the block columns randomly swap position to grab the user's attention. e.g., Let's say you have a tower-type banner ad in the far-right column and you want it to sometimes swap positions with the left column as to get more attention.

You can do this like this ...

Code:

It's a simple way to keep user focus. Wink

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 190

Thanks a bunch I think I got it.