Hiding random news if no news is available.

[m3talc0re]

Right now, if you have no news available for the random news box in the header, you'll see the space for it and the News: text without any news showing. To turn that off, you have to go to another settings area and disable the random news item altogether. A quick and easy fix for this is to simply hide it if no news is available.

Open the index.template.php and find this:
// Show a random news item? (or you could pick one from news_lines...) if (!empty($settings['enable_news'])) echo ' <td width="90%" class="titlebg2"> <span class="smalltext"><b>', $txt[102], '</b>: ', $context['random_news_line'], '</span> </td>';

See the if statement? This is what you want (notice the if again):
// Show a random news item? (or you could pick one from news_lines...) if ((!empty($settings['enable_news'])) && (!empty($context['random_news_line']))) echo ' <td width="90%" class="titlebg2"> <span class="smalltext"><b>', $txt[102], '</b>: ', $context['random_news_line'], '</span> </td>';

[metallica48423]

Hey thanks for the tip!

I had actually been looking for something like this for awhile.  Thanks!