From 32744124bcb8aa0683490a56defd4a79f072d278 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Prodromou <evan@controlyourself.ca>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:56:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add a hook for showing sidebar sections

---
 EVENTS.txt     | 5 +++++
 lib/action.php | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/EVENTS.txt b/EVENTS.txt
index 4b8260b3ce..d9634325db 100644
--- a/EVENTS.txt
+++ b/EVENTS.txt
@@ -34,3 +34,8 @@ StartShowLaconicaScripts: Showing Laconica script links (use this to link to a C
 EndShowLaconicaScripts: End showing Laconica script links
 - $action: the current action
 
+StartShowSections: Start the list of sections in the sidebar
+- $action: the current action
+
+EndShowSections: End the list of sections in the sidebar
+- $action: the current action
diff --git a/lib/action.php b/lib/action.php
index 0628dc70db..ce92addf5c 100644
--- a/lib/action.php
+++ b/lib/action.php
@@ -524,12 +524,16 @@ class Action extends HTMLOutputter // lawsuit
      *
      * @return nothing
      */
+
     function showAside()
     {
         $this->elementStart('div', array('id' => 'aside_primary',
                                          'class' => 'aside'));
         $this->showExportData();
-        $this->showSections();
+        if (Event::handle('StartShowSections', array($this))) {
+            $this->showSections();
+            Event::handle('EndShowSections', array($this));
+        }
         $this->elementEnd('div');
     }