Blueprint panels [#313988]

Comment #1

designerbrent commented 28 September 2008 at 15:29

I haven't yet had a chance to use panels 6 but that could be interesting. Is a module the only way to provide additional layouts to panels or is that something that can be done at the theme level?

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Comment #2

DerTobi75 commented 11 October 2008 at 23:13

Panels 2 support would be great!

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Comment #3

chadchandler commented 15 October 2008 at 20:11

What? You don't need a module to use the Panels module with this theme.

You just need to go into the layout settings of Panels and change the theme settings to reflect your theme.

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Comment #4

mfb

they or he

commented 15 October 2008 at 20:39

@Prodigy, I am talking here about adding additional layouts, not theming the existing layouts.

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Comment #5

chadchandler commented 15 October 2008 at 21:59

Oh okay .. my mistake. You do know there is a "flexible" layout in Panels that allows you to manually set widths as em,%, or pixels for rows and columns. I can't imagine needing more than that? Sorry again.

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Comment #6

mfb

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commented 15 October 2008 at 22:13

Sure, but I was thinking there might be a "market" for pre-built layouts designed to work with blueprint?

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Comment #7

designerbrent commented 15 October 2008 at 22:18

Does panels support providing layouts from outside of it's own module folder? last I played with it, you had to make any custom layouts in the module folder.

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Comment #8

chadchandler commented 15 October 2008 at 22:53

It's just not needed. Now if you are talking about styling .... that's another issue. I can see there being an audience for styled panels.

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Comment #9

mfb

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commented 15 October 2008 at 23:51

I haven't contributed it (yet) but it was easy to make my own blueprint_panels module that uses the panels API to add a set of layouts.. these have no CSS and just use blueprint classes in the layout templates like span-12, span-4, span-8, last, etc. to create various 3-, 4- and 5-column layouts.

This is definitely not rocket science and anyone else can do the same thing.. but it could save some time if anyone else wants to recreate these same layouts..

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Comment #10

merlinofchaos commented 16 October 2008 at 01:46

No, all of panels plugins are through hooks. Any module can provide any of Panels plugins, including layouts. I'm not sure why people believe differently.

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Comment #11

dagomar commented 6 March 2009 at 09:40

In the panels module folder, find:
plugins>layouts

You can just add a custom blueprint compatible layout there i imagine...

*edit*

I just did this. It is not so difficult. To get started I copied one of the panel provided layouts, and then changed the names and everything in the files to use blueprint css instead of the one provided by panels. I'll give a quick rundown:

In the folder modules/panels/plugins/layouts is where the magic happens.
I wanted a layout like: 1 - 3 (50% - 25% - 25%) - 3 (3x33%) - 1. I copied one of the panels layouts (3 columns stacked, but doesnt really matter)
You need to name the folder and filenames in a similar fashion as themes:
In my case i ended up with:
BP_1_3_3_1/BP_1_3_3_1.inc
BP_1_3_3_1/BP-1-3-3-1.tpl.php (note that I had to use - instead of _ here, I dont understand why.)

In the inc file I adjusted the names, and in the tpl.php I made the structure that I wantd. It is very important that you add a class to your containing div with the name of your panel layout, like: panel_BP_1_3_3_1.

I think thats all, not a perfect step by step guide, but may get someone else started. Good luck!