Add a menue on the left

[Netrus]

Hi everyone.
Well, I hope this is the right forum for my question. Maybe you can help me.
I tried to Add a menue on the left side of the gallery. You can see it there: http://gallery.elvado.de/themes/water_drop/template.html! As you can see (gallery.elvado.de), it doesn't works. I copied that part of the FAQ:

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function pageheader($section, $meta = '')
{
   global $CONFIG, $THEME_DIR;
   global $template_header, $lang_charset, $lang_text_dir;

   if(empty($custom_header)){
      include('left-menue.php');
      static $custom_header = ob_get_contents();
      ob_clean();
   }

   header('P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE"');
   user_save_profile();

   $template_vars = array(
      '{LANG_DIR}' => $lang_text_dir,
      '{TITLE}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'].' - '.$section,
      '{CHARSET}' => $CONFIG['charset'] == 'language file' ? $lang_charset : $CONFIG['charset'],
      '{META}' => $meta,
      '{GAL_NAME}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'],
      '{GAL_DESCRIPTION}' => $CONFIG['gallery_description'],
      '{MAIN_MENU}' => theme_main_menu(),
      '{ADMIN_MENU}' => theme_admin_mode_menu(),
      '{CUSTOM_HEADER}' => $custom_header,
   );

   echo template_eval($template_header, $template_vars);
}
The file left-menue.php is in the main folder (gallery.elvado.de/)

And now it says:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '(', expecting ',' or ';' in /www/htdocs/netrus/themes/water_drop/theme.php on line 834

Line 834 is

static $custom_header = ob_get_contents();

Do you know what's my mistake? Or what I have to change?

((My Por

[Nibbler]

Split it onto 2 lines:

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static $custom_header;
$custom_header = ob_get_contents();


[Netrus]

Ok, now there's no error, but it doesn't replace  {CUSTOM_HEADER}  (menue-left.php should echo "test")

[Nibbler]

What you added is not a custom header, but a custom footer. You need to make the changes to the pagefooter function instead of the pageheader function.

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// Function for writing a pagefooter
function pagefooter()
{
    global $HTTP_GET_VARS, $HTTP_POST_VARS, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
    global $USER, $ALBUM_SET, $CONFIG, $time_start, $query_stats;
    global $template_footer;

    if ($CONFIG['debug_mode']==1 || ($CONFIG['debug_mode']==2 && GALLERY_ADMIN_MODE)) {
    cpg_debug_output();
    }

   if(empty($custom_header)){
      include('left-menue.php');
      static $custom_header;
  $custom_header = ob_get_contents(); 
      ob_clean();
   }

   $template_vars = array(
      '{CUSTOM_HEADER}' => $custom_header,
   );

   echo template_eval($template_footer, $template_vars);
}

[Netrus]

Ok, Thanks.
But now there is a new Problem, the menue ("test") is on the place a footer normaly should be, and not in the table i created in template.html! There do i have to change that?

Thanks for helping me!

//Edit:
Arg, the Sourcecode looks very strange. Seems like I have to repair a lot. Always hard to modify a system, you havn't understand completely

//Edit2:
A, know i see. For some reasons, the beginning of the footer (untill {CUSTOM_HEADER}) is in the top of the page ... not as complicated as i thought

[Nibbler]

I don't know why that happened. If you can re-arrange the tables so that the custom header/footer comes before the {GALLERY} tag in the html code in template.html then you can have it as a custom header and it should be ok.

[Netrus]

Wow, thanks a lot. It was a bit of work, but i could learn something, and it's a good feeling to solve a problem 

[heartburn00]

I need help with this too, but I'm not good at this stuff, so can someone please tell me exactly how to do it?