Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Re: Phpwebsite-developers digest, Vol 1 #678 - 1 msg

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

The way I've done 2 or 3 column pages in pagemaster in the past is to 
define a new section template which uses float:left in the class used 
on the DIV. Set the width dependent on the number of columns you want. 
A clear:both afterwards is sometimes useful or put the clear:both on 
the other existing section templates which you've probably modified 
anyway to remove tables. ;-)

eg.

.floaty {
	float: left;
	width: 50%;
}

create a new section template called floaty.tpl

<div class="floaty>
<h3>{TITLE}</h3>
{CONTENT}
</div>

(or whatever you want in there.

If you want 3 columns, use 33%. If using margins/padding, watch for 
IE's box model bugs.


On 9 Aug 2004, at 15:33, George Brackett wrote:

> That sounds like a very interesting approach.  But I don't quite 
> understand,
> Eloi, what you mean by asking whether Pagemaster 'fully supports page
> templates now'. (I don't use Article Manager any more because users
> protested the copyright message.)  The default Pagemaster page template
> lumps everything together in a {CONTENT} tag, meaning it's up to 
> Pagemaster
> itself to lay out the page except for add-ons like date published etc.
> Granted, the section templates (e.g., image_float_left.tpl) can lay 
> out a
> section pretty much any way {IMAGE} and {TEXT} can be arranged, but
> ultimately Pagemaster just strings all those sections (each sitting in 
> a
> table) in a line down the page.  It's not clear to me how one would 
> put that
> in a two-column layout without modifying the PageMaster code.  Most of 
> the
> options I can think of for a series of section templates like the one 
> you
> suggest would make individual templates sensitive to the proper use of 
> other
> templates (e.g. one template starts a <div> and another finishes it).
>
> George
>
> On 8/8/04 11:38 PM, 
> "php...@li..."
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>> I understand your goal a lot more now, but I think it can be achieved
>> with existing modules.  Article Manager (and PageMaster if it fully
>> supports page templates now) is designed for just that purpose.  A
>> specific newsletter layout is defined as the overall page template
>> design plus any particular combination of section templates.  If you 
>> add
>> in section templates that utilize "div"s with "float:left/right" to
>> define columns, then you can end up with any layout you choose!
>>
>> Once a particular layout is designed, then all the designers have to
>> know is that Layout#1 consists of Page Template "Layout_1" with 
>> sections
>> in the order of "Right_Column_Top", any number of
>> "Right_Column_Middle", "Right_Column_Bottom", "Headline", and any 
>> number
>> of  "Body".
>>
>> Or if you want to make it even easier, you could submit an RFE (or a
>> patch ;)) to allow either module to clone an new article/page off of 
>> an
>> existing blank one.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you wanted to make the newsletter module create
>> the articles itself, the technique is illustrated in the importation
>> scripts.
>>
>> Personally, I think our collective coding time would be better spent 
>> on
>> quite a few other core class ideas than a universal section class.
>> There are only a very few possible uses for the page/section paradigm,
>> and I'm constantly looking for an easy-to-use, 
>> non-javascript-intensive
>> way to get away from it and still retain the layout flexibility.
>>
>> -Eloi-
>>
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