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21 July 2009, 15:07
How do you acces individual parts of the $SIDEBLOCK array? Ex: in the sideblock, if you have a new message it says '1 New Message' in the sidebar.
I want to take those individual fields and place them where ever I want. The only thing is I don't know how to access the Friends Request and the New Message.
I want to place those two fields in the header section and I don't know how to call only those two parts from the $SIDEBLOCK array. Any help would be great!
21 July 2009, 15:28
The friend request, I'm not sure about. Haven't messed with it yet. But, to display unread messages in the header, open lib/web.php and make the following change:
Find (should be around line #366):
$smarty->assign('LOGGEDIN', $USER->is_logged_in());
if ($USER->is_logged_in()) {
$smarty->assign('MAINNAV', main_nav());
}
else {
$smarty->assign('sitedefaultlang', get_string('sitedefault', 'admin') . ' (' .
get_string_from_language(get_config('lang'), 'thislanguage') . ')');
$smarty->assign('LANGUAGES', get_languages());
}
and right under (or right before):
$smarty->assign('MAINNAV', main_nav());
add:
$smarty->assign('UNREAD_MESSAGES', count_records('notification_internal_activity', 'usr', $USER->get('id'), 'read', 0));
$pendingfriends = count_records('usr_friend_request', 'owner', $USER->get('id'));
$pendingfriendsmessage = $pendingfriends == 1 ? get_string('pendingfriend') : get_string('pendingfriends');
$smarty->assign('PENDINGFRIENDS', $pendingfriends);
$smarty->assign('PENDINGFRIENDS_MESSAGE', $pendingfriendsmessage);
and then in your header template, you can use the $UNREAD_MESSAGES variable anywhere you want to display the number of unread messages, $PENDINGFRIENDS to display the number of pending friends, and $PENDINGFRIENDS_MESSAGE to display "pending friend" or "pending friends" depending on the number of pending friends.
That should work. I know the unread messages part works. The pending friends part should work fine, too.
21 July 2009, 20:39
I haven't implemented the code yet. However, looking over Stephen's code, it looks as though this may work. I'll post again after I try this out. Thanks Stephen!!
21 July 2009, 16:43
Hi - the sideblocks are fully built in that array, which means you wouldn't be able to get the information out of $SIDEBLOCKS directly. Doing what Stephen suggests is probably how I'd do it
22 July 2009, 9:06
This worked out well!! Thanks again Stephen!! I modified your code slightly.
$numofunreadmsgs = count_records('notification_internal_activity', 'usr', $USER->get('id'), 'read', 0);
$unreadmsgs = $numofunreadmsgs == 1 ? get_string('unreadmessage') : get_string('unreadmessages');
$smarty->assign('NUM_OF_UNREAD_MESSAGES', $numofunreadmsgs);
$smarty->assign('UNREAD_MESSAGES', $unreadmsgs);
$pendingfriends = count_records('usr_friend_request', 'owner', $USER->get('id'));
$pendingfriendsmessage = $pendingfriends == 1 ? get_string('pendingfriend') : get_string('pendingfriends');
$smarty->assign('PENDINGFRIENDS', $pendingfriends);
$smarty->assign('PENDINGFRIENDS_MESSAGE', $pendingfriendsmessage);