By OnthegOinOz on

Hi,

I'm sure this is a really simple question and i'm going about it in a really difficult way but its been a while since I used Drupal and not sure where it has progressed. What I would like is the flexibility of creating a page layout like in panel pages and somehow have it so I open up the page and enter the content directly into the page rather than going to all the bits and pieces of creating views and taxonomy and everything else.

Please tell me what i've missed!

Thanks

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donpwinston’s picture

donpwinston commented

I think you've been dreaming. If you don't want to use Panels then the only alternative is to build custom templates for your content type.

Create a file in the templates directory or your theme's root(depends on the theme your (using) called node-.tpl.php.

Copy what's in node.tpl.php to your override. And then edit it using print $node->field_<some_field_name>[0]['view']; to pull content form Drupal.

If the field has multiple values you replace the [0] with the appropriate index [n].

Another possibility is using blocks. But I don't think that's what you're looking for.

Once you've got the display configured you can edit the content by clicking the "'Edit" tab that shows up on every editable piece of content and edit the content in place. Assuming you're logged on with the appropriate privileges.

Simpler is always better.

OnthegOinOz’s picture

OnthegOinOz commented

Thanks for your reply... i'd love to use Panels, I thinks it and views is amazing. It just feels like a big process to create a Panels Page and then create a View for each Content Area of the Panel Page and then create Content Types for each Content Area that get filtered by the View.

It would be great to somehow just edit the content sections of a page by just clicking edit page or something like that.... like is done when I create just a normal page?

: )