Question

I have a custom CMS here entitled phpVMS, and I want to exclude a piece of code, a banner for a single page. phpVMS is steered using templates, for instance, the main template that codes the general layout for all pages is entitled layout.tpl. So, like I said, this displays whatever is in the template, on all of the pages. I have however created a special control panel, and therefore require to exclude the banner, because it slightly destroys the theme of it. Is there any PHP code that excludes a piece of code on a single site? I need to remove a single div…

<div id="slideshow"></div>

…on a single page.

Basically, I could create a new template but this is a very long winded and unefficient way within this CMS, and the final result isn’t that great – because I can’t reinclude the mainbox div which is the box defining the content on the centre white bit of the theme – it’s already in the layout.tpl.

I hope you can somehow help me, hope I’ve included enough information there.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t think you can do what you’re asking in PHP, but you might be able to do this on the client-side, by either hiding the div (CSS display:none) or by removing it with JavaScript. You might be able to do something like:

<?php
    include("layout.tpi");

    if (condition)
    {
        // Javascript:
        echo "<script>document.getElementById('slideshow').style.display = 'none';</script>";

        // OR jQuery:
        echo "<script>$('#slideshow').hide();</script>";
    }
?>