[SOLVED] Portal Header (Left Blocks) not on every page

[Jason Sanborn]

I posted this on the other IntegraMOD site a little over a month ago. Bumped it twice, and never received an answer. I'm hoping that someone here might know the answer to this question.

IntegraMOD 1.4.0
phpBB 2.0.19
Forum Wide headers are enabled.

When navigating my site, I always want my board navigation and other left (header) blocks enabled. On most pages, they are enabled, as a result of the Forum Wide headers. The problem I have, though, is on a couple pages of the forum where the user is given "information" such as when no topics are found in a search.

I use the "Posts Since Last Visit" (which I renamed to "New Posts") heavily to see what is new on my site. If there's nothing new, then my board navigation doesn't appear. From what I could tell, it appears that the switch for portal_header isn't being called. Any ideas on why this is happening, or how I can fix it?

[Simon N]

When there are no new posts the search obviously can not find anything so is told to output an error message via the language key of $lang['No_search_match']

this would be something like:

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else                 {                     message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['No_search_match']);                 }

My guess is since this is an information message only there is no need to output the page as usual.

In short this is by design and not an error. So no amount of settings changes can alter this.

However a few edits can sort this for you so]                     message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['No_search_match']);[/code]

BEFORE, ADD

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                // start proper output of page                 include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);                 // end proper output

As said there are 3 instances and be sure to find them all and add the above code before. SAVE & CLOSE file.

The comments are just to enable deletion of changes if need be. Hope this helps.

[Jason Sanborn]

Ah. Its so nice having the left panel in place even when there are "No topics or posts met your search criteria"

[Helter]

this would be a good addition to 141, because the error page breaks many templates with images that span from header to footer

[Simon N]

Did I do somethign right <img> yay for me!!! LOL

[Jason Sanborn]

Just a thought I had. This modification added the code to one specific area. Isn't there a code page that handles error generation? Instead of including the include before calling the error, what if the include for page_header.php and page_footer.php were included in the php page that generates the error message itself? Would that be possible, and easier to implement?

[Eon]

Yeah, cause when you mark all forums read, the left blocks are not there either..

[Simon N]

The error handling is not on one page...but its easy to add that code into all error handling sequences.

Half asleep at moment but will look at this later.

[Jason Sanborn]

I found the solution to show the "header" on every page, including when message_die() is called. This is preferred over Simon's solution, as it only requires editing one file to handle all message_die() calls.

OPEN: includes/functions.php

FIND:

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    if(defined('HAS_DIED'))     {//+MOD]
BEFORE, ADD:[code]// Enable header variables to be used in the message_die() callinclude($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);

I've tested this locally, and am going to add it to my test site, but so far it appears to work without problem.

[Jason Sanborn]

Hmmm. I actually made a mistake, the code to add should be:

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// Enable header variables to be used in the message_die() callif (!defined('IN_ADMIN')) {     include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);}

Otherwise it will distort things in the ACP, which I found out after implemented on my test site. <img>

[Jason Sanborn]

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This still doesn't work, and caused an error in the knowledge base. If you've added the code in either of the two previous posts, remove them. Simon's is still the best solution.