How to hide Edit | View tabs? - drupal

Can I hide the
Edit | View
tabs on top of each node ?
I've searched for this option in theme settings (both global and standard theme but I couldn't find it).
I still want to be able my customer to edit / administer content, so I cannot just remove the permission for it.
thanks

here is a very easy solution for you. (Drupal 7)
Open your page.tpl.php in your current template and search for the $tabs variable.
Remove the render code if you want to hide it completely.
If you want to display it only to administrators use this code
<?php if ($tabs and $is_admin): ?>
<div class="tabs">
<?php print render($tabs); ?>
</div>
The above code checks if the user is administrator. If it is it will render the tabs. If not it wont render them.

This really is a presentational thing, not a functionality thing, so it should be done at the theme level.
The problem with overriding theme_menu_local_tasks() is that you override/take a hatchet to the entire local task display, when you really just want to get in there with a scalpel to remove two specific local tasks. So, you need to get a little more specific.
theme_menu_local_tasks() gets the current page's local tasks and passes them to menu_local_tasks(). Here, two theme functions are used:
theme_menu_item_link(), which gets the link markup for the task
theme_menu_local_task(), which gets the <li> element for the task.
So, you can get rid of the View and Edit local tasks in a really robust way by overriding theme_menu_item_link() and theme_menu_local_task() to include your check for them:
function mytheme_menu_item_link($link) {
// Local tasks for view and edit nodes shouldn't be displayed.
if ($link['type'] & MENU_LOCAL_TASK && ($link['path'] === 'node/%/edit' || $link['path'] === 'node/%/view')) {
return '';
}
else {
if (empty($link['localized_options'])) {
$link['localized_options'] = array();
}
return l($link['title'], $link['href'], $link['localized_options']);
}
}
function mytheme_menu_local_task($link, $active = FALSE) {
// Don't return a <li> element if $link is empty
if ($link === '') {
return '';
}
else {
return '<li '. ($active ? 'class="active" ' : '') .'>'. $link ."</li>\n";
}
}
This way, you're relying on the menu router path, not modifying the menu router item, and achieving the result you want with minimal changes to core functionality or theming.

On the module side, you could do something that decouples the Edit's menu entry from the local tasks for the node:
function custom_menu_alter(&$items) {
$items['node/%node/edit']['type'] = MENU_CALLBACK;
}
The edit path is still there, but now it is not associated with the View tab. This includes the edit page itself--no View tab there.

there is a module for that: tab tamer allows to hide or disable tabs and rename them as well.

I use the following in template.php by theme (which is perhaps a little hacky, I feel I should be considering unsetting $tabs instead):
function THEME_NAME_menu_local_tasks() {
return '';
}
Or you could ommit:
if ($tabs) echo $tabs;
from your page.tpl.php...

View and Edit are functional features. They have a reason for being there.
The best way to "remove" them, is to "remove" that functionality alltogether. After all: why remove the interface of a piece of functionality, but not the functionality itself?
Besides, simply not printing the tabs, does not remove the url endpoints. In other words: if you don't print the edit tab, people can still access the edit page.
Again: best is to remove that functionality: The fact that you don't want the edit tab, sounds as if you don't want the edit functionality for certain users.
If so, then just remove that permission for that role. That is all. The tabs will be gone.
If, however, you simply wish to display these tabs differently, Drupal is your friends. As you may have noticed, they are called local tasks and not tabs. That is because the theme decides how to render them: The theme is the thing that decides to show them as tabs.
Simply override the theme_menu_local_tasks() to create your own HTML for the "local-tasks". And in your page-tpl, simply move the $tabs variable around to a place, where you want them.
But again: Don't try to change the behavior of the app, by removing interface-elements. That is not the right thing to do: you should change the behavior, in order to change the behavior :)

For all the people stumbling upon this question while looking for a D7 solution: As stated on https://drupal.stackexchange.com/a/77964/15055 it's hook_menu_local_tasks_alter()
/**
* Implements hook_menu_local_tasks_alter() to unset unwanted tabs
*/
function MYMODULE_menu_local_tasks_alter(&$data) {
foreach ($data['tabs'][0]['output'] as $key => $value) {
if ($value['#link']['path'] == 'node/%/view') {
unset($data['tabs'][0]['output'][$key]);
}
}
}

This is not the answer to the question of what the author asked. But somehow it might be useful for others user who facing the similar problem with me. Please let me know if this is not suitable to put in here.
I get the answer from #grayside and modified a bit to hide the view | edit tab from node based on the content type I want.
function MYMODULE_menu_alter(&$items) {
$items['node/%node/view']['access callback'] = 'MYMODULE_disable_node_view';
$items['node/%node/view']['access arguments'] = array(1);
}
function MYMODULE_disable_node_view($node){
if($node->type == 'product'){
return false;
}
}
product is the machine name of my content type, I don't want anywant to access it including root user.

The simplest solution to hide the tabs is to add this class in your theme css
.tabs{ display:none;}

Thanks for the last answer. But be aware of this detail: if you try it as-is it cannot work: literals should be just rounded with " or ', not both of them altogether. So it should be:
/**
* Implements hook_menu_local_tasks_alter() to unset unwanted tabs
*/
function MYMODULE_menu_local_tasks_alter(&$data) {
foreach ($data['tabs'][0]['output'] as $key => $value) {
if ($value['#link']['path'] == "node/%/view") {
unset($data['tabs'][0]['output'][$key]);
}
}
}
Once taken care of it, it works :)

D8 solution: If you want to hide all "local" tabs on certain pages, remember that "Tabs" is listed in the block library: find it in the "Content" region and exclude by content type, page URL or user role.

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Remove screen options tab if not admin

As the title suggests, I am looking for a way to remove the screen options tab in the post/page editor screen. I have found the following...
function remove_screen_options(){ __return_false;}
add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options');
...but it removes the tab for all users. I would like to keep it for admins.
Regards,
John
Found the answer after collaboration of all of your efforts. Thank you.
get_currentuserinfo() ;
global $user_level;
function remove_screen_options(){ __return_false;}
if( $user_level <= 8 ) add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options');
If you place the following snippet of code into your functions.php file, the Screen Options tab will disappear across the whole backend for all users except the admin. Having said that, it is a good practice to modify the php file of your child theme.
functions.php code:
function remove_screen_options_tab()
{
return current_user_can('manage_options' );
}
add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options_tab');
You just need to conditionally check if the current user is an admin. If they aren't, then remove the screen options like so:
if ( !is_admin() ) {
function remove_screen_options(){ __return_false;}
add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options');
}
Here are the official Wordpress docs detailing this function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_admin
Using capabilities the way Spencer suggests is usually the best method.
I'm thinking most people find roles & capabilities to be overly confusing. Using the actual user role with 'current_user_can' is more often than not your best bet for this or any other similar 'permission' based situation.
More often than not you will eventually end up adding/removing capabilities for a specific role, so if you ever give someone else the 'manage_options' capability, like perhaps the owner of the business, you all of a sudden gave them back the screen options as well (On a side note 'activate_plugins' is usually safe since it is only for someone that has level 10 access). You can check out all permissons on the User Level Capability Table at the bottom of the page to get a better grasp on it all.
Insert this in functions php:
if( !current_user_can('administrator') ) {
// hide screen options for everyone but the admin
add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options_tab');
}
if( current_user_can('administrator') ) {
// code here is shown to the admin
}
Following this format you can do the same thing with other roles. Also you dont have is change administrator to editor, author, contributor and subscriber, or any other roles you create.
Try this
if(!current_user_can('manage_options')) add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options');
Use Adminimize, A WordPress plugin that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/
You're looking for the function current_user_can:
if( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
// executes when user is an Administrator
}
Here's the CSS method for all the designers who rather stay away from php. It hooks into the admin_body_class and adds user-{role} as a body class.
functions.php code:
function hide_using_css_user_role( $classes ) {
global $current_user;
foreach( $current_user->roles as $role )
$classes .= ' user-' . $role;
return trim( $classes );
}
add_filter( 'admin_body_class', 'hide_using_css_user_role' );
Using this you can hide/show anything on the admin side per user role. In this case just use the :not css selector to make sure it's only hidden for non-admins.
function add_my_custom_user_css() {
ob_start(); ?>
<style type="text/css">
:not(.user-administrator) #screen-options-link-wrap,
:not(.user-administrator) #contextual-help-link-wrap  {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
<?php
echo ob_get_clean();
}
add_action ( 'admin_head', 'add_my_custom_user_css', 999);
This is a pretty hacky way to do things but sometimes good for a temporary quick fix when you don't know the correct filter/action to hide or change things in wordpress. Adding the 999 will make sure it gets loaded at the end of the head tag. Note that it's only hiding using css, so don't use this for anything vitally important, because the code is still visible in the source file.
To remove it from the source use jquery instead. Just replace the styles above with the following:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($)) {
$( ":not(.user-administrator) #screen-options-link-wrap" ).remove();
}
</script>
'admin_body_class' already does us the favor of adding the page to body class, so to target specific pages as well, just check the source code and in the body tag you can see the current page. So for example, the dashboard uses .index-php. Just attach that to .user-administrator or whatever user you're targeting and you can customize the admin for any user just using css and javascript.

Hide menu link for particular referrer in Drupal 7

I'm looking for a way to hide specific menu items for anonymous users under certain conditions. In particular, I serve a site for affiliates on several subdomains, and for certain subdomains (affiliates) I would like to hide the link to my 'about us' page which appears in a couple of menus.
I'm not overly bother about completely denying access to the 'about us' node, but appreciate that this might be one avenue to explore.
So far I've looked at:
* hook_menu_alter but this is only called when the menu tree is rebuilt and also I can't see how I would remove items only for a particular anonymous session.
* template_preprocess_menu_link : possible, but how to I tell the item not to render. I could add a class to the menu item that hides it, not particularly nice but it would work.
* hook_node_access : can't see how I would prevent access for only this session.
Any thoughts or pointers welcome.
[Edit]
To follow up on this, I have a solution working, but I'm not at all proud of it, there must be a nicer way. I'm using the 'hidden' class to add a css 'display:none' attribute to the list item.
function sil_affiliate_preprocess_menu_link(&$variables) {
$affiliate = get_affiliate_from_session();
if ($affiliate && !$affiliate->show_aboutus) {
$real_path = drupal_lookup_path('source','customerservice/aboutus');
if ($variables['element']['#original_link']['link_path'] == $real_path) {
$variables['element']['#attributes']['class'][] = 'hidden';
}
}
}
:wq
Familymangreg.
You can use the following code sample in your custom module. it implements hook_node_access (not tested)
function [YOUR_MODULE]_node_access($node, $op, $account)
{
if($account->uid == 0 && $op == "view" && $node->nid == 15)
{
return NODE_ACCESS_DENY;
}
}
Hope this works... Muhammad.

How to programatically disable regions on a drupal 7 page?

I am working on a module where i have a page that must have no regions or extra content. A kind of "please wait" page.
How do i diable all extra content (regions menus...etc) ? i think Panels has this ability but i can't find the snippet it uses.
On another hand is it possible for a module to specify a special custom page ? like the maintenance-page for example ?
The page.tpl.php method is not flexible. It is based on a presentation logic. You should use hook_page_alter() for a business logic solution. For example:
function yourmodulename_page_alter(&$page) {
if (current_path() == 'node/add/yourcontenttype') {
unset($page['sidebar_first']);
}
}
Also look at very powefull Context module.
You can create a an extra page.tpl.php specifically for the page where you want to hide the regions. The naming principle is similar to the one for nodes.
Let's say you have a page with the url example.com/content/contact. A template named page--content--contact.tpl.php would serve that page and any page that starts with that url, i.e. the page example.com/content/contact/staff would also use that template (I think).
Check the classes of the body element for clues to what you can name your template, most themes will print that. In my example above, the body element would include the class page-content-contact.
Only thing i can think of is writing checks in your page.tpl.php file to see if you on that "page" your talking about and not printing out the regions/menus, or use a different template. http://drupal.org/node/223440
If you want to do this before the blocks are rendered:
/**
* Implements hook_block_list_alter()
*
* Hides the right sidebar on some pages.
*/
function THEME_NAME_block_list_alter(&$blocks) {
// This condition could be more interesting.
if (current_path() !== 'node/add/yourcontenttype') {
return;
}
// Go through all blocks, and hide those in the 'sidebar_second' region.
foreach ($blocks as $i => $block) {
if ('sidebar_second' === $block->region) {
// Hide this block.
unset($blocks[$i]);
}
}
}
Note: Interestingly, this hook seems to work no matter if you have it in your theme or in a module.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong)

Hide link to a Views' view if the view is empty

I have a Drupal 6.14 site with Views module. I have a view and on the primary links I put a link to the view.
There is a way to hide the link in the primary menu only if the view is empty?
You could probably do this either via a theme or module implementation of preprocess_page (THEMENAME_preprocess_page(&$vars) or MODULENAME_preprocess_page(&$vars)), but mac above is correct in that views are not known to be empty or not until they are run, so there will be a performance hit.
Within the function, you should have access to the structured primary links array, so you can run the view:
$view = views_get_view('view_name');
// Swap out 'default' for a different display as needed. Also, $args are arguments, and can be left out if not applicable.
$output = $view->preview('default', $args);
if (empty($view->result)) {
// The view has no results, alter the primary links here to remove the link in question.
}
I am ready to be contradicted any moment as I never implemented anything like that, however I am under the impression that since views are essentially queries against the DB, you can't actually know if a view is empty until you actually invoke it.
Consider that - given you are speaking about primary links (shown on nearly every page of your site) this might be a serious performance hit, depending on the complexity of the view and on its "cacheability".
You should also consider whether the content of that view can be changed by other users browsing the site at the same time that "our" user: should the view become populated after "our" user has loaded the page, "our" user won't ever know.
As on how to achieve what you want, please see the accepted answer.
HTH!
I override views_embed_view() to only provide output if there is content, and then call my override from the theme layer:
function mymodule_embed_view($name, $display_id = 'default') {
// handle any add'l args (this hook supports optional params)
$args = func_get_args();
array_shift($args);
if (count($args)) {
array_shift($args);
}
$view = views_get_view($name);
$output = $view->preview($display,$args);
if ($view->result) {
return $output;
}
}
Then in the template file:
<?php
$view = mymodule_embed_view('view_name');
if (strlen($view) > 0) {
print $view;
}
?>

Why isn't $vars['node'] available in preprocess_page for some content types?

I am currently using drupal 6 for a site I'm working on. I have a MYTHEME_preprocess_page() function that adds a few variables to the page.tpl.php template from the taxonomy and from a cck field. It was working correctly for a bit, and then the $vars['node'] is empty, but only for 2 content types. The 'node' variable is available to the preprocess_page function in other content types.
I thought it was a problem with using the following code, but when I remove all of this, the 'node' variable is still empty.
function mytheme_preprocess_node(&$vars, $hook) {
$function = 'mytheme_preprocess_node'.'_'. $vars['node']->type;
if (function_exists($function)) {
$function(&$vars);
}
}
Does anyone know of any gotchas or bugs that might be removing the 'node' variable? I can't seem to figure out where I'm going wrong. I'm at a loss.
Here is my complete mytheme_preprocess_page() function.
function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) {
if ($hook == 'node' || $hook == 'page') {
if (is_object($vars['node'])) {
// grab the header image if it exists to make it avaialble to the content header
$vars['header_image'] = _mytheme_get_header_image($vars);
// get the taxonomy term to put in the content header
if (count($vars['node']->taxonomy) > 0) {
$vars['tax_term'] = "<div class=\"terms\">" . _mytheme_get_first_taxonomy_term($vars['node']->taxonomy) . "</div>";
}
// add the teacher's credentials to the content header
if ($vars['node']->field_credentials[0]['view'] != '') {
$vars['teacher_credentials'] = '<span class="teacher-creds">' . $vars['node']->field_credentials[0]['view'] . '</span>';
}
}
}
}
After going through and disabling modules one-by-one, I determined that the problem is related to the module, node_breadcrumb. A similar issue was filed here: http://drupal.org/node/616100#comment-2199374
In the 3rd comment, you'll see a link to another issue with a resolution
For others that run into this, I had the same issue as a result of using the jQuery UI module. Disabling and re-enabling fixed it, and I could not track down the specific issue, but it appeared to be related to $static variables in some path check functions.
To others that stumble their way into here, I suggest you pull some of the more obvious modules right out of the module folder on your dev setup, see if things change, and then put them back in there until you figure it out.
Another option is to search for instances of _preprocess_page(, $variables['node'] and $vars['node'] to see if some contributed code is unwittingly unsetting a node when it shouldn't be.

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