[Slashcode-general] re: problems with blocks

[Giles B. <gi...@bo...>]

hi all...I just joined the list...

>Settings
>-I set almost all my blocks to 0
>-Features, Login, and Polls are set to 1, 2 and 3  
>-I set a few others to -1
>
>Problems
>-Login doesn't come up at all
>-Menu with options like About, FAQ, Topics... still comes up
>-Andover.net menu still comes up.

I tracked down the Andover.net menu the other day. It lives in a block
called "organisation." I just got started on this, so I'm not familiar
with block settings, etc.; instead I fixed it just by making the block
blank. actually, almost blank.

the block looks like this:

$menu .= <<EOT;
(buncha code)
EOT

of course in Perl this means "throw everything until EOT into the $menu
variable." I coulda just erased everything but for some reason I decided
to be superstitious and left the

$menu .= <<EOT;
EOT

part intact, even tho it's obviously a waste of time. it's just saying,
"throw nothing into $menu." you could almost certainly get away with
leaving it entirely blank, and I probably will go back and do that sooner
or later.

the about/faq/topics block is called "mainmenu." I kept that but shuffled
the text around.

hth...


g