Hi,
this may sound funny but I feel like this module is of great use for me but I can't figure out exactly how. Are there use cases someone can point me to? I see what context_layout can do and use it a lot but don't quite see the advantage here where only the content area is filled up. Please enlighten me!
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Björn

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emackn’s picture

emackn commented

The project page, http://drupal.org/project/custompage, talks about features, theming and a quick comparison to Panels.

Do you have specific questions?

dreipunktnull’s picture

dreipunktnull commented

Thanks for your feedback.

Panels allows for full pages to be arranged whereas custompage only handles the content area. I was wondering how I can benefit from this like showing menus or blocks in the content area. Maybe I don't get it at all but if I create a custom page and like to show nodes or parts of them on it I would have to hard code their nids in my custompage.tpl.php as the page is bound to a url?
I think a real life example would help my a lot.

Thanks again in advance.

irakli’s picture

irakli commented
Status: Active » Fixed

You don't have to hard-code nids, you can include nodes using titles as well, or define environment-specific nids as settings.php/virtualhost variables. When content items support machine_names, Custompage will support that too, so it will be even easier.

One use-case of custompage that we employ a lot is as a HTML cut-up tool for designers and themers, so they can theme pages and blocks inside drupal, rather than send back-n-forth zips of offline HTML.

Another use-case is theme-layer embedding (in tpl) of nodes, menus or views anywhere you want.

dreipunktnull’s picture

dreipunktnull commented

Ok, thanks for explaining. I think I get it now.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.