Fix former "Panelhider" extension to work with new vanilla versions?

Inkscape · August 2006

Don't know if this has been asked before, but couldn't find anything 'bout it when searching the forum. If I remember correctly, earlier versions of vanilla offered a possibility to hide/unhide the panel on the left side by clicking on a button. What happend to this?

Bergamot · August 2006

It was an extension, and I don't believe it's been updated for 1.0.x

I can't imagine it was terribly complicated though.

jakob_r · August 2006

I guess these would be the steps:
Add a toggle-switch button to your theme, or via an add-on where you want to have it, and use it to switch the status of #Panel between visible and hidden. There's probably the JS function in prototype (bundled) for that already.

You'll also need to adjust css for #Content as follows, either in the vanilla.css of your theme or via the add-on:
#Content { margin:0px 18px 0px 18px; }

Inkscape · August 2006

It's a shame that I don't know anything about JS. Additionally I can't make any changes to the theme as I'm not the admin of the vanilla board. I'm just a normal user there. All I did was making changes to the vanilla stylesheet and creating a new style. :) And that's all I know about CSS. Making some changes within an already existing stylesheet. Changing some background colors, adding an image, ... I hope someone is able to convert the old extension (if it actually can be found) to version 1.0

yesahasureok · November 2006

i think mark or whoever should take care of this feature ... its definitely a unique and a very effective feature to get a clean "view" of a forum with only a single klick

Inkscape · December 2006

Just for the fun of it, I obtained all necessary files from the "PanelHider" extension (via Google Search) and uploaded it to a new folder
inside /extensions on our Vanilla 1.0.3.

As far as I can see it, the extension consists of these files:

btn.hidepanel.gif
btn.revealpanel.gif
PanelHider.php
panelhider.handheld.css
panelhider.hidden.css
panelhider.js
panelhider.visible.css

I renamed 'Panelhider.php' to 'default.php' and put all files inside /extensions/Panelhider. Afterwards I tried to activate the extension to see what happens. And guess what? I got an error.

Call to undefined function 'Setting' inside Panelhider.php on line 35.
if ($Context->Session->User->Setting("HidePanel")) {

This is the complete code of Panelhider.php (I removed the comments, so that the code didn't get too long)

<?php

if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("account.php", "categories.php", "comments.php", "index.php", "post.php", "search.php", "settings.php")) && $Context->Session->UserID > 0) {
   class PanelHider extends Control {
      
      function PanelHider(&$Context) {
         $this->Context = &$Context;
      }
      
      function Render() {
         $this->Context->Writer->Write("<div id=\"HiddenPanel\"><a href=\"javascript:RevealPanel();\">&nbsp;</a></div>
         <div id=\"HidePanel\"><a href=\"javascript:HidePanel();\">&nbsp;</a></div>");
      }
   }
   
   if (@$Head) {
      $Head->AddScript($Context->StyleUrl."panelhider.js");
      if ($Context->Session->User->Setting("HidePanel")) {
         $Head->AddStyleSheet($Context->StyleUrl."panelhider.hidden.css", "screen");
      } else {
         $Head->AddStyleSheet($Context->StyleUrl."panelhider.visible.css", "screen");
      }
      $Head->AddStyleSheet($Context->StyleUrl."panelhider.handheld.css", "handheld");      
      $PanelHider = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, "PanelHider");
      $Page->AddControl("Panel_Render", $PanelHider);
   }
}

?>

Anyone here who can fix it to work in newer vanilla versions?

iternity · February 2007

Will this be fixed? I would love to have this extenison :-)

WallPhone · February 2007

Almost: http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=222

iternity · March 2007

Right now it is not working with the default vanilla theme / style.

TomTester · March 2007

To hide the panel on non-vanilla-pages that I create in PageManager I simply insert this code at the top of the page HTML field:

<style type="text/css">
Body {background-image: none;}
#Panel {display:none;}
#Content {margin:0px 18px;}
</style>

Note: briefly tested, but it seems to work fine in Opera 9.10, FF 2.0.0.2 and IE 7.0.57)

Tried the following on themes in FF2 (with positive results):
vanilla default, black and white, europeaftertherain, vaneablack, YHbeta, Scene 1.0

starscream · June 2008

has anyone got the panelhider to work with vanilla 1.1.4 default theme? I get a 'javascript alert 404 error' after i click hide, and again when i click on reveal. i traced it to the following function in extensions/HidePanel/panelhider.js if you look in function HidePanel() and function RevealPanel() you will see; var dm = new DataManager(); dm.RequestCompleteEvent = PanelHide_Success; dm.RequestFailedEvent = HandleFailure; dm.LoadData("/ajax/switch.php?Type=HidePanel&Switch=1"); the line "dm.LoadData("/ajax/switch.php?Type=HidePanel&Switch=1");" saves the current state of the panel so when you refresh the page it keeps it as is. if i comment this line, the panel will hide and show fine - but won't keep its state on page refresh. my question is: does 'PanelHide_Success' need to exist somewhere else, and do i need to make any changes to ajax/switch.php code? please advise, thanks! -starscream

Fix former "Panelhider" extension to work with new vanilla versions?

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