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[krumz Friend krumzJoin date: October 2012Posts: 138Downloads:77Uploads:22 Thanks: 23 Thanked: 4 times in 2 posts]

#196848

Hello All,

Hope what I’m saying below makes sense. :-[

So it took me a while to figure out that the mast-col position will not show unless you have sidebar-1 or sidebar-2 selected. It is not explained anywhere about this in the documentation (at least not that I could find).

This (to me) seems to lack functionality to what is otherwise a very good template. In my case, (I always use the content left layout) I have a couple of short pages and only want to have mast-col showing.

Needless to say when I did that and did not have a sidebar-1 or 2 selected on those pages nothing showed at all. I was so confused and frustrated and ready to pull my hair out because it took quite a bit of time to figure out why.

As luck would have it, I managed to duplicate and hack the mainbody-content-left file (code below, which I’m no expert so I don’t know how correct it is) to make it work but not everyone can do this.

For me it is important that no matter what I have selected (mast-col, sidebar-1, sidebar-2, etc.) and in whichever way I want it to show – it should show, it should work the way I want it to, it should not be dependent on having a sidebar-1 or 2 in use.

Below is how I changed mainbody-content-left to have any situation work for me regardless of what positions I’ve chosen (note there is mast-col2 that I added as well)

[PHP]<?php

/**

* @package T3 Blank

* @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 – 2012 Open Source Matters, Inc. All rights reserved.

* @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt

*/

defined(‘_JEXEC’) or die;

?>

<?php

/**

* Mainbody 3 columns, content in left, mast-col on top of 2 sidebars: content – sidebar1 – sidebar2 – mast-col-2 on bottom

*/

// positions configuration

$mastcol = ‘mast-col’;

$sidebar1 = ‘sidebar-1’;

$sidebar2 = ‘sidebar-2’;

$mastcol2 = ‘mast-col-2’;

$mastcol = $this->countModules($mastcol) ? $mastcol : false;

$sidebar1 = $this->countModules($sidebar1) ? $sidebar1 : false;

$sidebar2 = $this->countModules($sidebar2) ? $sidebar2 : false;

$mastcol2 = $this->countModules($mastcol2) ? $mastcol2 : false;

if ($sidebar1 && $sidebar2) {

$this->loadBlock(‘mainbody/ourfile-two-sidebar-right’, array(‘sidebar1’ => $sidebar1, ‘sidebar2’ => $sidebar2, ‘mastcol’ => $mastcol, ‘mastcol2’ => $mastcol2));

} elseif ($mastcol && ($sidebar1 || $sidebar2)) {

$this->loadBlock(‘mainbody/ourfile-two-sidebar-right’, array(‘sidebar1’ => $sidebar1, ‘sidebar2’ => $sidebar2, ‘mastcol’ => $mastcol, ‘mastcol2’ => $mastcol2));

} elseif ($sidebar1 || $sidebar2) {

$this->loadBlock(‘mainbody/ourfile-two-sidebar-right’, array(‘sidebar1’ => $sidebar1, ‘sidebar2’ => $sidebar2, ‘mastcol’ => $mastcol, ‘mastcol2’ => $mastcol2));

} else {

$this->loadBlock(‘mainbody/ourfile-two-sidebar-right’, array(‘sidebar’ => $sidebar1 ? $sidebar1 : $sidebar2, ‘mastcol’ => $mastcol, ‘mastcol2’ => $mastcol2));

}

?> [/PHP]

[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#531752

By default, there is no constraint between ‘mast-col’ position and ‘sidebar-1’, ‘sidebar-2’ position. I just tried to download the T3 Blank template, use ‘mainbody-content-left’ layout, disable all modules in 2 sidebar positions, but the module assigned to ‘mast-col’ position still displays correctly.

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#531820

Hmm. I am on a test site and when using t3 bs3 blank template and when I unpublished sidebar 1 and 2, mast col does not show? Mast col will show however, when I have something in sidebar 1 or sidebar 2.

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#531863

I thought that you’re referring to T3 Blank as title of this thread, not T3 bs3 Blank template.

As you can see in the position configuration in block ‘mainbody-content-left.php’, if there is no module assigned to ‘sidebar-1’ or ‘sidebar-2’ position, it will load block called ‘no-sidebar’ and this block doesn’t include ‘mast-col’ position. That’s reason why the module in ‘mast-col’ doesn’t show.

You can use solution you posted in this thread 🙂

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#535226

Thanks Saguaros,

Did not see your response until now. Changing the code the way we did seems to work for us. 😀

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