Need pages with no left menu...
 

Hello,

I need to have a couple of pages that don't have the standard menu on the left side and use the whole screen.

Anyone know how I can delete the menu for these specific pages and use the space where it was for content?

Thanks,
Jennifer

You could do a root level static page instead of an embedded static page.....

Won't that get rid of my header and footer as well though?

I need those to stay, just not the menu...

Jennifer

Well, you could either include the header and footer in the static page, or you could surround the menu with an {if} statement....

What would the {if} statement be? That's my problem, I don't know the coding well enough to make something like that work...

Jennifer

It depends on what page(s) you want to remove it on.

In general, pages are called with a "main" variable.

{if $main eq "help"} do this
{else} do this instead
{/if}

You can view the "main" variable in the php file.

You can remove the left side in skin1/customer/home.tpl but you may have to edit some "colspan" entries also.

hi Balinor,
Could you please explain how to include the header and footer in
a root level static page?

Thanks!

I'm not sure I'm clear on this yet.

Let's use the shopping cart as an example because that 's one of the places where I'd like to remove the left menu.

In cart.php I can delete the "categories" file so the menu doesn't show up. But I don't know how to actually use that space. All my tables on the page are set to width="100%" but they still don't fill up where the menu was.

Any idea how I move those tables over?

Thanks,
Jennifer

That is because the table column is still there. You can't just remove the menus, you would have to remove that whole first column....

That's what I'm trying to learn how to do...

Would that be done in cart.php? Would I need an {if} statement?

Specifics would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,
Jennifer