By drupalgurl on
Hi - I am learning drupal and want to change the layout of my site - I want to use the center space better - and I don't know if Views or Panels is what I need -
Right now I have a long list -
The other part of my question is whether or not Views and Panels does/*must* affect all pages, or just those I desire.
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should have added
I know I can change the display of the list via PHP, but I'm wanted to also display images in half of that center area - so it's not so boring
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Panels utilizes views, so learn how to use views (in the handbooks) then you can use panels to position your views
Basics
"Views" refer to data views, not to presentation. It's really not about layout. It's about building complex database queries whose results get cooked and served up to the presentation layer.
"Panels" is a solution for the frequent request that content be presented in multiple page regions, columns, wrapped, et cetera. It's very much about presentation.
The two work together.
ok - thank you for that..
ok - thank you for that.. and as an afterthought, a question: you said : "It's about building complex database queries whose results get cooked and served up to the presentation layer."
Let's suppose I had a 2ndary database I want to query and present results from on my drupal site. Would Views allow me to do this AND have dynamic pages have "clean urls" (if I have that enabled as well)
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no views only makes available what is in your Drupal Database.
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