Topic: Hiding Blocks for Admin

[Sudhakar]

Hi Team,

Could i Hide a block to Admin. 

[[SiNaN]]

Hmmm, not really. Because they have all the permissions for all blocks.

It is like the board permissions in SMF; you cannot hide a board from admin.

[H]

Why would you want to do this?

[Burke Knight]

Some admins like to show some blocks to guests and members that they don't always want to see themself. Like me, I set up the news board block, which cannot be collapsed, yet I really as admin, do not need to always see it, since I wrote all the posts there.

[H]

Perhaps then it would be an idea for admins to be able to collapse any block, regardless of what it is set to?

[Burke Knight]

That would be good idea.

Maybe move this to Feature Requests?

[Sudhakar]

Yes BurkeKnight,

You are really right. I need to hide news and other block to Admin.

Burkeknight and K give me a sample code to workout . 

[Burke Knight]

I'm only a beta tester, not a coder... Well, ok, I'm a coder, but not for SP yet.... Well, not for long time, as I still have TONS to learn.


I'll leave that coding to the more experienced team members.

[Sudhakar]

Ok, and hope some team member will help me soon.

[Sudhakar]

Any Updates for this post.

Once this feature is added, Simple portal will be more reliable to admin.

where they could hide advertisement tabs. 

[Sudhakar]

Any update on the Feature Request Team. 

[Sudhakar]

Suppose, if i have a advertisement block.

I could block that particular block to an admin.

[ianus]

Greetings!

Yes, an advertisment block is something an admin must not see always.

Try

Code: [Select]

if ($context['user']['is_logged']){
"your code here"
}
if($context['user']['is_admin']){
"leave blank"
}
This should show the content to all logged users, but not to admins.
I have some problems with $context. It seems that SP don't use some SMF code automatic.
So it is possible that you have to add something like
global $context, $scripturl, $settings, $member, $memberContext, $member_id
at the very beginning of you blockcode. I haven't figure out yet how SP handeles this.

[Sudhakar]

Great "ianus".

I do even have a member group where i have removed the ads using the block permissions at simple portal configuration.

[[SiNaN]]

http://simpleportal.net/index.php?issue=116.0

[Aw06]

Greetings!

Yes, an advertisment block is something an admin must not see always.

Try

Code: [Select]

if ($context['user']['is_logged']){
"your code here"
}
if($context['user']['is_admin']){
"leave blank"
}
This should show the content to all logged users, but not to admins.
I have some problems with $context. It seems that SP don't use some SMF code automatic.
So it is possible that you have to add something like
global $context, $scripturl, $settings, $member, $memberContext, $member_id
at the very beginning of you blockcode. I haven't figure out yet how SP handeles this.

Where is this info to go ? inside of the block ? and did you getting it working ?

This is definately a needed feature for 2.2 

[[SiNaN]]

Not really. 2.2 is feature frozen ATM, you'll have to wait next version.

About some frequently used variables not being as default globals for PHP block; that is how it should be. You should global what you need yourself.

[KahneFan]

Where is this info to go ? inside of the block ? and did you getting it working ?

This is definately a needed feature for 2.2 

You would want to create a "PHP Block" adding the above code and then adding your needed code where it says "your code here".

[Aw06]

Where is this info to go ? inside of the block ? and did you getting it working ?

This is definately a needed feature for 2.2 

You would want to create a "PHP Block" adding the above code and then adding your needed code where it says "your code here".

thanks. ... but what about all this you posted

global $context, $scripturl, $settings, $member, $memberContext, $member_id

?

[Sudhakar]

Hi Team,

Could i Hide a block to Admin. 

Still i could not hide the block for admin.

Any idea would be appreciated.