how to remove or edit sidebar from Knowledgebase + Announcements

[cluster]

I use multiple languages and some links in the sidebar do not work, this links are using an rp= parameter inside.

index.php?rp=/knowledgebase

 

Announcements

Knowledgebase

Downloads

 

How can I disable the sidebar for the above pages or edit the links to make them work w/ language parameter?

Edited September 11, 2017 by cluster

[brian!]

i'd be tempted to do one of two things before modifying the sidebar...

 

1. switch to using Full Friendly URLs or Friendly Index.php in the Friendly URLs section of general settings.

 

https://docs.whmcs.com/Friendly_URLs

 

2. report it as a bug... though index.php?rp=/knowledgebase&language=french does work for me using Basic URLs setting, so i'm unsure what's causing your issue without seeing your specific links.

 

ultimately, you can change these links using action hooks, but i'd try the above options first before trying to modify the sidebars.

[cluster]

thanks!

hmm strange ... the advaced tab > Environment Mode Inspection shows now a red cross for Full Friendly Rewrite (not supported)

But I'm sure that mod_rewrite works ...

 

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

#force lang de
RewriteRule ^de/(.*).php?(.*)#(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=german#$3 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^de/(.*).php?(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=german [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^de/(.*).php#(.*) /clients/$1.php?language=german#$2 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^de/(.*).php$ /clients/$1.php?language=german [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^de/$ /clients/index.php?language=german [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^de/(.*) /clients/$1 [NC,L,QSA] 

#force lang en
RewriteRule ^en/(.*).php?(.*)#(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=english#$3 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*).php?(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=english [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*).php#(.*) /clients/$1.php?language=english#$2 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*).php$ /clients/$1.php?language=english [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/$ /clients/index.php?language=english [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*) /clients/$1 [NC,L,QSA]

#force lang fr
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*).php?(.*)#(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=french#$3 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*).php?(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=french [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*).php#(.*) /clients/$1.php?language=french#$2 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*).php$ /clients/$1.php?language=french [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^fr/$ /clients/index.php?language=french [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*) /clients/$1 [NC,L,QSA]

#force lang fr
RewriteRule ^lu/(.*).php?(.*)#(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=luxembourg#$3 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^lu/(.*).php?(.*) /clients/$1.php?$2&language=luxembourg [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^lu/(.*).php#(.*) /clients/$1.php?language=luxembourg#$2 [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^lu/(.*).php$ /clients/$1.php?language=luxembourg [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^lu/$ /clients/index.php?language=luxembourg [NC,L,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^lu/(.*) /clients/$1 [NC,L,QSA]


# Announcements
RewriteRule ^announcements/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+\.html$ ./announcements.php?id=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^announcements$ ./announcements.php [L,NC]

# Downloads
RewriteRule ^downloads/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ ./downloads.php?action=displaycat&catid=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^downloads$ ./downloads.php [L,NC]

# Knowledgebase
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+\.html$ ./knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ ./knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase$ ./knowledgebase.php [L,NC]

# OpenID Discovery Document (http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html)
RewriteRule ^.well-known/openid-configuration ./oauth/openid-configuration.php [L,NC]

# security
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} systpl=*
#RewriteCond %{query_STRING} ^(carttpl=*)|(systpl=*)|(tpl=*)|(sld=*)|(tld=*)|(billingcycle=*)|(currency=*)(.*)$
#RewriteCond %{query_STRING} ^(carttpl=*)|(systpl=*)|(tpl=*)|(sld=*)|(billingcycle=*)|(currency=*)(.*)$
RewriteCond %{query_STRING} ^(carttpl=*)|(systpl=*)|(tpl=*)|(billingcycle=*)|(currency=*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.tld/? [R=301,L]

 

- - - Updated - - -

 

maybe .. would be better to disable/remove the sidebar if possible for:

Announcements

Knowledgebase

Downloads

Edited September 11, 2017 by cluster

[brian!]

thanks!

hmm strange ... the advaced tab > Environment Mode Inspection shows now a red cross for Full Friendly Rewrite (not supported)

But I'm sure that mod_rewrite works ...

or did... but is not compatible with the Friendly URLS options included with v7.2+

 

maybe .. would be better to disable/remove the sidebar if possible for:

Announcements

Knowledgebase

Downloads

https://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?129834-Cannot-remove-some-items-on-a-sidebar-2e-hours-spent-Anyone-can-help-please&p=519162#post519162

 

 <?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function(MenuItem $secondarySidebar)
{
   if (!is_null($secondarySidebar->getChild('Support'))) {
               $secondarySidebar->getChild('Support')
                               ->removeChild('Announcements')
                               ->removeChild('Knowledgebase')
                               ->removeChild('Downloads');
   }
});  

[cluster]

wow, thank you!

is this also possible w/ the left blocks for:

- by Month (Announcements)

- categories (Knowledgebase)

- Tag Cloud (Knowledgebase)

 

I do not find the variables for it ...

[cluster]

I was able to remove the tag cloud, but it does not work for the categories:

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function(MenuItem $secondarySidebar)
{
   if (!is_null($secondarySidebar->getChild('Support Knowledgebase Categories'))) {
               $secondarySidebar->removeChild('Support Knowledgebase Categories');
   }
});

[brian!]

I was able to remove the tag cloud, but it does not work for the categories:

they're both primary, not secondary, sidebars... so same hook code, but replace all references of secondary to primary...

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaPrimarySidebar', 1, function(MenuItem $primarySidebar)
{
   if (!is_null($primarySidebar->getChild('Announcements Months'))) {
               $primarySidebar->removeChild('Announcements Months');
   }
   if (!is_null($primarySidebar->getChild('Support Knowledgebase Categories'))) {
               $primarySidebar->removeChild('Support Knowledgebase Categories');
   }
});

[cluster]

Great, Thank you Brian, that worked!

[dani88]

I'm using WHMCS 7.2+ and would like to close the chevron of knowledge base tag sidebar as default instead of remove it. May you please a solution to do that?

 

Thanks.

[brian!]

I'm using WHMCS 7.2+ and would like to close the chevron of knowledge base tag sidebar as default instead of remove it. May you please a solution to do that?

good question - off-hand, I don't know the answer.... perhaps one for WHMC Andrew to reply to as this is undocumented.... and he's got access to code that I haven't!

[WHMCS Andrew]

There isn't anything in the code that would load the bar closed.

 

You could use a hook to insert some javascript to "click" the chevron on load.

 

Untested, but something like this:

 

jQuery('div[menuItemName="Support Knowledgebase Tag Cloud"]').find('i[class~="fa-chevron-up"]').click();

 

As for the hook, http://developers.whmcs.com/hooks-reference/output/#clientareaheadoutput

[dani88]

Thanks to Brian and Andrew.

 

I've tested the following hook that of course didn't effect:

 

<?php

add_hook('ClientAreaHeadOutput', 1, function($vars) {
   $template = $vars['template'];
   return <<<HTML
   <link href="../../templates/six/css/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery('div[menuItemName="Support Knowledgebase Tag Cloud"]').find('i[class~="fa-chevron-up"]').click();
</script>
HTML;

});

 

May you please check and correct my code?

 

Also I have one question more, my Tags are so important, what will be happen if i use Brian's code to remove Support Knowledgebase Tag Cloud sidebar? Does it effect to my SEO articles they're include tags?

 

Would be great with your kind answer.

[dani88]

Thanks to Brian and Andrew.

 

I've tested the following hook that of course didn't effect:

 

<?php

add_hook('ClientAreaHeadOutput', 1, function($vars) {
   $template = $vars['template'];
   return <<<HTML
   <link href="../../templates/six/css/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery('div[menuItemName="Support Knowledgebase Tag Cloud"]').find('i[class~="fa-chevron-up"]').click();
</script>
HTML;

});

 

May you please check and correct my code?

 

Also I have one question more, my Tags are so important, what will be happen if i use Brian's code to remove Support Knowledgebase Tag Cloud sidebar? Does it effect to my SEO articles they're include tags?

 

Would be great with your kind answer.

[dani88]

Is there anybody help me to solve this issue?

[jeffuk]

@dani88 if it helps, this worked for me...

 

<?php

add_hook('ClientAreaHeadOutput', 1, function($vars) {
    $template = $vars['template'];
    return <<<HTML
<script>
	jQuery(function(){
		jQuery('div[menuItemName="Categories"]').find('i[class~="fa-chevron-up"]').click();
	});
</script>
HTML;

});

 

[brian!]

1 hour ago, jeffuk said:

if it helps, this worked for me...

it does indeed... though I doubt you need the template variable assigned in that way... if for no other reason than you're not using it!

the only time it would be of use would be if you were minimising the sidebar on a specific template page, and even then you'd probably use templatefile instead.