Allow some pages to be full screen IE no side bar

MrCaspan

Is there a way when rendering a page that you can specify no side bar on the code for that page? Or is it just as easy to do in CSS?

luquitas

If its impossible to remove this code, the best way it's use CSS to hide this bar. EG:

.nameClass {display:none !important;}

MrCaspan

Yep i did finally do it with CSS that gets loaded by this page

R_J

It can easily be done in css. The main css elements in Vanilla are

.Header

.Content | .Panel

.Footer

So hiding .Panel alone would still leave some room on the right. The .Content should be expanded to 100%

.Panel { display: none; }
.MainContent.Content { width: 100% }

Loading html and not displaying it is somewhat unsatisfying. If you are working on a custom theme, you can use a themehooks file to further customize Vanillas behaviour. This themehooks file is something like a theme-specific plugin.

Internally Vanilla is working with "assets" which are called just like the css classes above. The Panel asset is just one array element of the individual controllers, like the DiscussionsController (which renders the recent disussions), the DiscussionController (that renders a single discussion) and so on. Therefore, if you hook into Vanilla before a page gets rendered, you can unset the Panel from the Assets array and it will not be processes. You would certainly have to additionally do the CSS changes.

   public function discussionsController_render_before($sender) {
       unset($sender->Assets['Panel']);
    }

MrCaspan

It's actually for your calendar plugin. So in the month.php can I just tell it not to load the side menu?

R_J

The url to the month view is /vanilla/eventcalendar/month. That is

Controller: VanillaController

Request Method: eventcalendar

Request Arguments: month

The VanillaController extends the base controller which has the request method and arguments as properties. Therefore you can do it like that:

   public function vanillaController_render_before($sender) {
       if (
           $sender->RequestMethod == 'eventcalendar' &&
           $sender->RequestArgs[0] == 'month' ?? ''
       ) {
           unset($sender->Assets['Panel']);
       }
   }

donshakespeare

Of if you want the stuff there but hidden, add .NoPanel classname to the body tag in your default template or via JS when page loads

R_J

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/260055#Comment_260055

No need to add something. The body element gets automatically a #vanilla_vanilla_eventcalendar id so that the css above prefixed with #vanilla_vanilla_eventcalendar will do the trick

donshakespeare

I mean, a set of CSS rules for .NoPanel is shipped by the new Vanilla Forums boilerplate template.