Two columns layout for nodes
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I wanted to setup a two columns layout for my frontpage. I don't see any snippet for doing this the way I wanted so here is my solution.
You must use the phptemplate engine for this to work.
1) Make your themefolder/node.tpl.php look like this:
<?php
global $node_count;
global $node_incr;
global $node_cols;
if (isset($node_incr) and $node_incr>-1) {
$node_incr++;
} else {
$node_incr = 0;
$node_cols = array(0 => "", 1 => "");
}
// dispatch odd index nodes to the left and even index ones to the right
$side = ($node_incr/2 == round($node_incr/2)) ? 0 : 1;
// or sends the first nodes in the left column up to $node_count/2
$side = ($node_incr<$node_count/2) ? 0 : 1;
$buffer = " ... html code ... ";
$node_cols[$side] .= $buffer;
if ($node_count>1) {
if ($node_incr == $node_count-1) {
$node_incr = -1;
?>
// If it is the last node, the content is printed out
<table>
<tr>
<td style="width: 50%; vertical-align: top;">
<?php print $node_cols[0];?>
</td>
<td style="width: 50%; vertical-align: top;">
<?php print $node_cols[1];?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
}
} else {
// If $node_count == 1, there's no need to draw a second column
echo $node_cols[0];
$node_incr = -1;
}2) Add the following to modules/node.module:
global $node_count;
$node_count = db_num_rows($result);after
function node_page_default() {
$result = pager_query(db_rewrite_sql('SELECT n.nid, n.sticky, n.created FROM {node} n WHERE n.promote = 1 AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.sticky DESC, n.created DESC'), variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10));
if (db_num_rows($result)) {3) For taxonomy nodes, add the same to modules/taxonomy.module after:
function taxonomy_render_nodes($result) {
if (db_num_rows($result) > 0) {
no need for patching the core.
for my drupal 4.6 site at http://undergrowth.org, I managed to do this by simply wrapping each teaser node in a floated div and avoided tables to boot. I also had to CSS style them to
overflow: hideto avoid complications with lumpy content styles. Actually, searching the site, i notice I'm not the first one to think of this: http://drupal.org/node/27441.