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If i only want to have my static pages on the front, how can i hide the "No News to Display"
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You could use the search function of this forum

no news to display

Or you meet a guy in a positive mood

[Quote by Dirk]
Near the end of index.php, there's a comment stating "no stories to display". The following COM_startBlock / COM_endBlock pair (and the code in between) is responsible for the "no stories to display" message.
[/quote]
[Quote by Pantman]
Thanks for that Dirk. For anyone thats interested and wants to save the 2 minutes it takes to figure out the lines you need to comment out it's the ones below

$display .= COM_startBlock ($LANG05[1], '',
COM_getBlockTemplate ('_msg_block', 'header')) . $LANG05[2];
if (!empty($topic)) {
$topicname = DB_getItem ($_TABLES['topics'], 'topic', "tid='{$topic}'");
$display .= sprintf ($LANG05[3], $topicname);
}
$display .= COM_endBlock (COM_getBlockTemplate ('_msg_block', 'footer')); [/quote]

geKow

Thanks,

If i dont write i will never meet some new frends

Thanks for this post.

Brian

You must be a member of the Search Military Gekow, LOL.

Hehehe



LOL

hehe

it's just a matter of my actual mood

Normaly I'm an absolute peacefull and helpfull person

geKow

To prevent from changing the index.php code, I added the following into the db-config.php: //To prevent the News Block from Displaying $_CONF['hide_no_news_msg'] == 1; //0=shows 1=hides // Following times are in seconds $_CONF['newstoriesinterval'] = 86400; // = 24 hours $_CONF['newcommentsinterval'] = 172800; // = 48 hours $_CONF['newtrackbackinterval'] = 172800; // = 48 hours // Set to 1 to hide a section from the What's New block: $_CONF['hidenewstories'] = 1; $_CONF['hidenewcomments'] = 1; $_CONF['hidenewtrackbacks'] = 1; $_CONF['hidenewplugins'] = 1; I was, also, able to prevent the news block from displaying by changing index.php as follows: } else { // no stories to display if (!isset ($_CONF['hide_no_news_msg']) || ($_CONF['hide_no_news_msg'] == 1)) { //Changed to 1 to prevent displaying News $display .= COM_startBlock ($LANG05[1], '', COM_getBlockTemplate ('_msg_block', 'header')) . $LANG05[2]; if (!empty ($topic)) { $topicname = DB_getItem ($_TABLES['topics'], 'topic', "tid = '$topic'"); $display .= sprintf ($LANG05[3], $topicname); } $display .= COM_endBlock (COM_getBlockTemplate ('_msg_block', 'footer')); } $display .= PLG_showCenterblock (3, $page, $topic); // bottom blocks Either way, it works. But, of course, you can comment out the lines. It might be a problem on the next upgrade.

Why are you doing this? There's a handy option in the Configuration:

Configuration > Geeklog > Stories and Trackback > Story > Hide "No News" Message?

Set that to "True" if you don't want that message.

bye, Dirk

That's what happens if you dig up a five year old story :doh:

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