3 Column content-area with CCK and views?
rubaff - May 15, 2008 - 17:32
Hi there,
I'm building a drupal6-theme right now, which should look like this:
http://www.rubaff.de/testarea/website.jpg
Since the users that edit the content aren't any type of geeks, I'll try to keep it as simple as possible: so my question is:
Is it possible - using CCK and Views (or any other module, you name it) to create 3 areas in the content-area, which will be editable independently?
It was ideal, if the user creates new content, he'll get a site in which he can upload one image for the left colum, write content for the middle column, and write text for the right column.
I hope what I wrote is a comprehensibly :)
Many thanks, rubaff!
what you probably want is
what you probably want is http://drupal.org/project/panels (it allows for maximum flexibility for formatting the content area) but it's not ready for d6 yet.
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Panels
Yes, I know... That's why I wanted to improvise using CCK and Views...
Any ideas?
sorry, but from (or any
sorry, but from
and the fact you don't mention panels, I thought you didn't know about it.
you should be able to replicate that pretty easy in your theme--- instead of one "content" region (assuming you use a phptemplate based theme) you could have content-l, content-r, content-c. It just won't be as flexible through a UI as panels.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Search is your best friend." -- Worldfallz
Panels
Sorry, I meant any other module for Drupal 6 ;)
Thanks for your suggestion, I'm trying it right now, seems to work out fine, even if it's not that comfortable as I hoped it could be...
Maybe I'll edit the theme, as soon as Panels is out for D6 (any informations about the release-date?)
...even if it's not that
yeah, panels is definitely what you want. The theme method is certainly doable, but far less flexible. Most of the more active modules have an issue where you can check on the upgrade status. You can follow the panels one here.
It seems it's going to be a bit longer since they are not simply upgrading the module for d6 but also rewriting it (panels2). I've been playing with panels2 on a d5 dev box and it's simply amazing. If you can make due with the theme method for the time being, panels2 is definitely worth the wait. AFAIK, there's nothing in the CMS world that even approaches the knockout punch of views2/panels2. Truly amazing work.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Search is your best friend." -- Worldfallz