empty.php
 

How can I create a page to have only the top and bottom without the left and right navigations?

I know I could just copy the html, but that does not help. The page needs to be part of the system as I am using 2 languages and I'd like for it to be dynamic.

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ok, I have it now, sorry.

You could just create a static page, and then write an {if} statement that gets it to hide the left and right columns for that particular page. Is that what you have in mind?

static page link displays on menu and i don't want that

You can remove that easily.

how would I do that just for one or 2 pages, yet live it on for others?

Using a smarty {if} statement like this:

{if $smarty.get.pageid eq "1" or $smarty.get.pageid eq "2"}Display this{else}Display this{/if}

Replace 1 and 2 with the actual number of the static pages you want to hide the menus for.

thanks

You can "group" pages similar to Carrie's free category grouping mod, which then allows you to display/or not display any pages you want, wherever you want.

Assign a specific POS value to each of the pages you only want displayed in certain places. Something like this:
900, 901, 902 and so on for each of the "special" pages.

Then using codes like this in your /skin1/pages_menu.tpl or by copying that same template to something like /skin1/special_pages.tpl you can display them/turn them off at will:

oops! :oops:
I took too long to make my carefully crafted :D response and balinor beat me to it! 8)

nevertherless, thanks for telling me about that mod. I could use it somewhere else.

I tried that with pages_menu.tpl, it does not work

correction. It works, but only when browsing pages.php

got it to work with
{if $pages_menu[pg].pageid eq "2"

sorry to come back on that, but I really need an empty.php. I am a vbulletin guy and all I need is xcart top and bottom, so i could put my code in middle.

For example I duplicated pages.php into states.php and created a dropdown displaying all states. On select it gives me states.php?state=$stateid. I altered states table to include a description, and all i need is to display that text.

I could also use an empty.php to replace index.php with relevant content.

Allright I figured it out. That Smarty is really fun.