Page with two column layout

Posted by mariama__ on October 30, 2009 at 5:36pm

At the moment I have a political website where I want to express the views of my party.
The address will be like:

http://www.domain.com/opinions/"name of the neighbourhood"/list.html (this is a view which shows al the opinions for this neighbourhood).

What I have at the moment is a ContentType opinions. When I create an opinion, I select the neighbourhood(Taxonomy term) related to the opinion, and Pathauto is generating the url

http://www.domain.com/opinions/"name of the neighbourhood"/id-title of the opinion.html.

The problem is that sometimes I would like to have a 2 column, or 3 column layout for such a page. I've looked into the panels module but this isn't completely clear for me. Do I really have to create a panel page with 2 columns, create 2 "Opinions" and include these opinions into one of the panels? This way I have to do a lot of actions for every page (create 3 different content types).

The view including all opinions for a neighbourhood will also be a problem because only the opinions not included in a panel will have to be there and all the panels related to neighbourhood.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to fix this it would be great.

Comments

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Posted by VM on October 30, 2009 at 5:38pm

create views and stick the views in the panels.

Views will grab the data from the database and hand it to the panels.

I don't see how this would

Posted by mariama__ on October 30, 2009 at 5:43pm

I don't see how this would work out? I would still have to create panels and opinions for every opinion we have?

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Posted by VM on October 30, 2009 at 6:15pm

Not positive but I'd investigate how to use arguments in views.

Another method may be to use a custom tpl.php file. However, you may still need arguments and you'll likely have to provide some PHP to pull the data.