Author: Frost » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:14 pm
Hmm, it seems that you're right and there is a corrupted file somewhere, either by edits or a bum upload.
You said that this is a fresh install? If you have nothing to lose other then work so far I would suggest trying it again from the start and pay close attention to edits. You can do this on a separate place and if it works, move it over to replace your current one.
Either way, what all have you done so far? What did you start with, what mods did you install?
Also, I will try to explain header, footer etc as best I can...
In the beggining... lol
There were top, bottom, left, and right. These were for the portal page only, and the portal body tpl's were designed for these.
Then someone came along and asked, "Hey, let's have some blocks on the index as well".
If you remember, phpbb never had anything on the index, just forums, and making a portal page wasn't that hard, but adding these blocks to the index was tricky.
So then someone did it, and they wanted to be able to control the width of the blocks as well via their ACP
They created a whole new portal body tpl that would work with their newly acquired features. So instead of calling the blocks "left and right" like the old ones and confusing everyone they called them "header and footer"
They mean the exact same thing, except header and footer are the ones you can control with your acp
Header = left (that can be controlled in acp)
Footer = right (that can be controlled in acp)
Now the reason you have several in ACP, is because it sees ALL of the available controls (header, footer, left, right, top, etc)
You'll notice that if you change your layout (portal_body.tpl) some of the footer, right, left etc, disapear
This is because they are no longer used and LUCKY enough for you the acp sees this and doesn't let you use them. This is all way more advanced than what I have here, but this is just the basic idea of how it all works.
Mind you, I have never spent more than 15 minutes looking at it, the only experience I have with it is when I'm making a theme... lol
So there is probably someone way more equipped to answer your questions but maybe this will help you
Also, I speak from integramod, I don't use IM Portal
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