How to remove the words "posts" and "topics" from child board indexes

[wynnyelle]

This is what I want to remove:

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg308/wynnyelle/lose-these-words.jpg

It's already up top that they are the numbers of posts and threads, the words down there with the numbers on every single one are redundant, so I want to take those out. Would anyone know how?

Thank you!

[Sir Osis of Liver]

That looks like a custom theme, so don't know if this will help, but in Curve the child board post/topic info is in MessageIndex.template.php, here -

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// Show some basic information about the number of posts, etc.
echo '
</td>
<td class="stats windowbg">
<p>', comma_format($board['posts']), ' ', $board['is_redirect'] ? $txt['redirects'] : $txt['posts'], ' <br />
', $board['is_redirect'] ? '' : comma_format($board['topics']) . ' ' . $txt['board_topics'], '
</p>



[wynnyelle]

Thanks; would removing any of that cause errors, though? I went through major errors when trying to do similar cosmetic cleanup work on threads and posts last year.

[Marcus Forsberg]

As long as you remove them correctly without messing up the PHP syntax, you won't run in to any errors at all. It's just a simple edit.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

If you just remove the $txt variables, it shouldn't affect anything else.  You can even change a letter - $txt['board_topicx'] - and the text will disappear without changing the formatting.

[Marcus Forsberg]

If you just remove the $txt variables, it shouldn't affect anything else.  You can even change a letter - $txt['board_topicx'] - and the text will disappear without changing the formatting.

That wouldn't be a very good idea, though, calling for an undefined index. Better to remove it entirely.

[Chalky]

Or just comment it out with // first to be on the safe side?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

If you just remove the $txt variables, it shouldn't affect anything else.  You can even change a letter - $txt['board_topicx'] - and the text will disappear without changing the formatting.

That wouldn't be a very good idea, though, calling for an undefined index. Better to remove it entirely.

It werks gud!   You can also find the variables in the language file and make them blank.  But it's best to edit out the variables.

Commenting out the line removes all the post/topic info, including the numbers, not just the text labels.

[Marcus Forsberg]

It werks gud!

Um, no. It causes an undefined index in the error log. You don't want that. Just remove the variables, there is no reason not to.

[wynnyelle]

Yeah--I know about undefined indexes. We have a whole slew of those already.

I'm so sorry to those of you who have given me directions here, but I just don't understand how to remove these commands to make those words not show up.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Attach your MessageIndex.template.php.

[wynnyelle]

Thanks so much. Here it is:

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Ok, no way to test this but .....

Find this:

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<td class="windowbg2b" valign="middle" align="center" style="width: 8ex;">
<p>', comma_format($board['posts']), ' ', $board['is_redirect'] ? $txt['redirects'] : $txt['posts'], ' <br />

</p>
</td>
<td class="windowbg2b" valign="middle" align="center" style="width: 8ex;">
', $board['is_redirect'] ? '' : comma_format($board['topics']) . ' ' . $txt['board_topics'], '
</p>
</td>



Change to this:

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<td class="windowbg2b" valign="middle" align="center" style="width: 8ex;">
<p>', comma_format($board['posts']), ' ', $board['is_redirect'] ? $txt['redirects'] : ' ' , ' <br />

</p>
</td>
<td class="windowbg2b" valign="middle" align="center" style="width: 8ex;">
', $board['is_redirect'] ? '' : comma_format($board['topics']) . ' ' . ' ' , '
</p>
</td>



[wynnyelle]

I now have a test site environment. I tried this and it worked ! Thank you!