Panels 2 tutorials
The following tutorials will assist you in learning the basic functionality of using Panels 2.
The following tutorials will assist you in learning the basic functionality of using Panels 2.
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use panels 2 to layout blog and forum page
thx for your tutorial of creating new front page with Views and Panels 2. Which complete 1/3 of the thing i want to do.
I want to configure the layout of blog and forum page. Can it be done on with Panels 2 ?
for blog the layout i want
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| blog content | sub rightbar| rightbar |
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for forum i want the layout to be
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| forum content |rightbar2 |
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i know i can simply create a page-blog.tpl.php or page-forum.tpl.php to have a layout of what i want, but with that I do not know the variable that i could use print content of the block to show on "rightbar" region. I only know i could do sth like
<?phpprint $rightbar
?>
and here comes the question, I will have different block content show on the rightbar of blog and forum respectively. Yet some of their item will be shared. In Administer » Site building » Blocks I cannot assign a block to more than one region. I was hoping i could find a php variable for different block content (in my imagination, there shoud be sth like
$recent_commentfor the "recent comment block"), so that i could simply print that in the page-blog.tpl.php file. However, i cannot find it in the drupal site.And then i found this Views and Panels combination which could solve my question, however, it introduce another question, how can i reference the "$content" of the blog and forum page ? for the blog page it should be simple with the Views module, but not with forum page. Is there a $variable from drupal i could easily reference the content of the blog and forum page?
Or can i create new variable in panels 2 for me to reference in php, so that i could manage the content of the panels in the panels admin , e.g. $rightbar_panel , and then i could add that variable in the page-blog.tpl.php if that is the case, panel will be like a region but one specific block could be shown in more than one panel, which is unlike what the "default" region, could do.
Or there are simplier way ? can it be done with mini-panel ?