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Adding a sidebar without template edits

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IchBin™:
In order to add your sidebar without theme edits, you'll need to use the layers in SMF theme system. Here's a brief explanation that I got from Bloc at one time which helped me understand them.

--- Quote ---    - Say you just added a new action and do all sorts of stuff inside Yourpage.php, and now gonna render the template. First you add a layer by adding a name to the variable $context['template_layers'].this HAS to be done BEFORE calling the template(which you nromally doa t the ery end of Yourpage.php, or a function within it)

    $context['template_layers'][] = 'yourpage';

    Then SMF will now try execute "template_yourpage_above" and "template_yourapge_below". So you just stick whatever you want into these two, much like "template_body_above". Like a sandwich lol.

    Those two functions needs to be loaded in though, and thats where loadtemplate('yourpage'); comes in: You stick the two functions into a file called "yourpage_template.php" and put it into Themes/default. Its important that naming is consistant, otherwise SMF won't find it.

    Done.

    .....

    Now, often you like do subtemplates for example, for a specific part of your page/mod. That would then be executed BETWEEN the function "template_yourpage_above" and "template_yourpage_below", and needs to be named like this:

    $context['sub_template'] = 'yourpage_mysub';

    Then SMF will try render things like this:

    - template_yourpage_above()
    - template_yourpage_mysub()
    - template_yourpage_below()

    So you just put all those functions into yourpage.template.php. You can add more by just setting the correct subtemplate + making sure the function exist in the template.
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Doctor Deejay:
Thanks for your reply :) So, I can create a sidebar by putting the normal content in a specified width? Like this:

- Width, float, etc
- Sidebar
- Close the above
- Width and float
- Regular content
- Close the above

IchBin™:
Not sure I understand your list of explanation, but yes you can put any column and specify the width of course.

Labradoodle-360:
You could also use... $context['insert_after_template'] .= ''; which would allow you to do the same thing.

Doctor Deejay:
Thank you both, going to try out that tomorrow :D

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