I (like quite a few others) have found out that if you move the sidebar into its own template, and include it on pages such as threadlist and threadview it breaks and shows errors. Basically because the data it needs to pull (for who's online & stats) is only provided for forum_list.
Might I suggest making the sidebar data variables accessible globally. I can see this causing a ot of headaches as many sites so have a sidebar on all pages. I even tried doing some form of condition saying "if we're on the homepage, include the stats sidebar. Otherwise, continue" but I've found out the template system has no options for this (which is something else that is going to cause problems).
So this is kind of a double feature suggestion:
1 - Make sidebar-stats global
OR
2 - Allow conditional if statements to pick up the name of the current page so we can do something like:
I can see this being HUGELY annoying to work with.
I've had an open development discussion about it with Lawrence here if interested: Cant show stats on sidebar of all pages - so can we use an IF to set which pages its on?
Might I suggest making the sidebar data variables accessible globally. I can see this causing a ot of headaches as many sites so have a sidebar on all pages. I even tried doing some form of condition saying "if we're on the homepage, include the stats sidebar. Otherwise, continue" but I've found out the template system has no options for this (which is something else that is going to cause problems).
So this is kind of a double feature suggestion:
1 - Make sidebar-stats global
OR
2 - Allow conditional if statements to pick up the name of the current page so we can do something like:
Code:
<xen:if condition="THIS_PAGE == 'forum_list'"> -- INCLUDE STUFF -- </xen:if>I can see this being HUGELY annoying to work with.
I've had an open development discussion about it with Lawrence here if interested: Cant show stats on sidebar of all pages - so can we use an IF to set which pages its on?
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