By alexhicks on

Hi,

As a new DruPal user, I am in need of some assistance, I have staarted to make an elaborate DruPal site, but the only thing i'd like to change is for the Forum, some of the topics im posting ar long, so i would like to remove the right sidebar on the forum only.

Could anyone point me in the right direction as to how to do this?

Regards,

Alex Hicks

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ainigma32’s picture

ainigma32 commented

Just copy page.tpl.php to page-forum.tpl.php in your theme directory. Then modify the page-forum.tpl.php so that it doesn't display the right sidebar.

HTH

Arie

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alexhicks commented

I have just done that, but it hasnt changed, do i need to change which page the forum points at now? surely its still going to the same place as before, it hasnt been told to point to page-forum.tpl.php yet - where can i do this?

ainigma32’s picture

ainigma32 commented

The theme should pick this up automatically as long as the page-forum.tpl.php is in the same directory as the page.tpl.php file.

So let's say you are using garland you would get:

/themes/garland/page.tpl.php

and

/themes/garland/page-forum.tpl.php

Just to be sure you could navigate to /admin/build/themes and just hit the Save button. That will clear the cache and that way you can rule out that his is some caching issue.

- Arie

P.S. Have you installed the Devel module? If you haven't you really should because it's a great tool for fixing this kind of stuff.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I had the same problem. Creating page-forum.tpl works only for showing forum containers ( list of all the forums in website) and list of current discussions topics. But when I view forum posts, it hadn't use the page-forum.tpl.php and it had used the template in page.tpl.php file so I included this code snippet in the top of the page.tpl.php file (In addition to have page-forum.tpl.php) and it works for me.

Include this code in the top of the page.tpl.php,


if($node->type == "forum"){
    include "page-forum.tpl.php";
    exit;
}
// $Id: page.tpl.php,v 1.18 2008/01/24 09:42:53 goba Exp $

thanks & regards,
Manjula A. Weerasinghe
~ http://risingofsilversurfer.blogspot.com ~

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boblangdon commented

Hey Manjula,
Thanks! I've been wrestling with the same problem for the last 3 hours! Everything looks great until someone posts a new topic, and then drupal stops using "page-forum.tpl.php." Your simple fix never occurred to me. I was so intent messing around with Path aliases and content-types looking for the "simple" fix.
Still, it seems I've doing something wrong that I should have to resort to this. Did you learn anything more about this "problem"?
Thanks Again
Bob