Removing column_right

[satkin2]

Hi,

 

Sorry if this is a trivial question.

 

I've looked on the boards and seen that in order to remove the column_right from showing I have to comment out or delete

<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_right.php'); ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->
   </table></td>

after the <!-- body_text_eof //--> comment.

 

So rather than deleting the code, just in case I may want to re-add it, I'm commenting it out. However when I comment...

<!--    <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_right.php'); ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->
   </table></td> -->

 

or

 

<!--    <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_right.php'); ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->
   </table></td> //-->

 

The right column is being hidden, but at the bottom of my page I'm getting the closing comment characters, either --> or //--> and I can't for the life of me see why that's happening.

 

Has anyone experienced this problem, or am I doing something really elementarily wrong that as a newbie I'm not noticing.

 

Thanks

[germ]

Try the code below.

 

You can't nest HTML comments (I think)

 

<?php
 if ( false ) {
?>

   <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_right.php'); ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->
   </table></td>
<?php
 }
?>

[satkin2]

Wow, that was quick.

 

Worked perfectly, thanks very much.

 

Sorry to bother you further, just trying to understand what I've just put in, rather than just pasting it.

 

By being inside the ( false ) is this essentially saying "don't do this"?

 

Thanks

[germ]

The PHP test is:

 

 if ( false)

 

Which NEVER is evaluated to true so the code between the:

 

{

and

 

}

is never executed.

[satkin2]

Brilliant, could be worth knowing in the future.

 

Thanks very much for your help with this.