By teranex on

I must create a website which will use a global template to define it's layout. This template should have some different regions. By example:

+----------------------+
| 1 |        2         |
+---+------------------+
|   |                  |
| 3 |        4         |
|   |                  |
+---+------------------+

Region 4 will contain the actual content of the site.
Now, the first problem is that for every page it should be possible to select a background image for region 1, 2, 3, and also change their width/height and padding.

The second difficulty is the actual content. This should also be defined by some kind of 'inner-template'. With 'inner-template' i mean the following:
To lay-out the content of every page you have some templates available, from which you choose one for every page. Those templates simply define content-blocks, which can be edited one-by-one with a wysiwyg editor. Two examples:

+---------------------+     +-------+-------------+
|                     |     |       |             |
+----------+----------+     |       |             |
|          |          |     |       +-------------+
|          |          |     |       |             |
|          |          |     |       |             |
+----------+----------+     +-------+-------------+

So in the end this should result in the following scenario for the site owner when he wants to add or edit a page:
- He creates a new page or chooses to edit one.
- He can modify the general template, with specific changes for that page (other background-image in the header etc)
- He chooses an inner-template (=content-template) which is used inside the content-region (in my example that would be block 4)
- He can edit every content-block from the content-template using a built-in wysiwyg-editor

Is something like this possible with Drupal?

thx in advance!!

Comments

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

the template system is the ain reason for me to stick to Drupal. its extreme power is great.
You can do virtually anything, because drupal does not limit you to a single system. Smarty, PHPtemplate, Xtemplate, plain-ol-PHP
and whatever yopu can think of, can be used.

However, the default PHPtemplate is powefull enough for what you want, most probably.

Inner templates are not supported in the way you describe. teh very nature of Drupal does not allow for this. However, sections.module will, (with possibly a little extra code) do what you need.
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Next time, please consider filing a support request.

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