hi,

there are some old forum posts about this thema ... but I want to ask you again, may some of you have new innovative solutions or may know a module to do this:

Whats the best way to give a user the possibility to create multiple columns in backend?
For example I want a layout with a 100% col, then 3 cols, then 2 cols, then again a 100% col. In each col I want to insert just HMTL content (HTMLText).

And I dont mean just to give him some page types with different layouts, thats not very flexible ...

happy ss'ing :-)

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "100% col, then 3 cols, then 2 cols, then again a 100% col." - as in 100% at the top, 3 underneath, 2 under that and then 100% at the bottom?

Could you not achieve this by adding extra HTMLEditor fields or TextArea fields for each of the columns? Then styling them in your template - you could use a set of 'if' statements to achieve different layouts based on which columns are filled in.

Unless someone has a better idea?

hi

"as in 100% at the top, 3 underneath, 2 under that and then 100% at the bottom?" => YES I mean like that

The user should can create multiple column layouts without using page types. All the needed HTML code should stored
just in $Content field ... so it's more a JS thing I think ...

To achieve this in the past, I have created one page type for each of the different required layouts, then coded CSS accordingly

ie)

TwoColumnPage.php
ThreeColumnPage.php

Then the user just selects which layout they desire by picking the corresponding page type.

Multiple Content Areas may be necessary as pointed out by kinglozzer

Cheers,
Josh

I use CSS3 for doing this now.

http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_multiple_columns.asp

Or I just create new HTMLEditorField for each column.

You could create a has_many rule to a object like

<?php
class Column extends DataObject {

static $db = array(
"Content" => "HTMLText",
);

public static $has_one = array(
"Page" => "Page"
);
}

And then use a complexTableField to create as many columns as you want for each page... maybe. You will need to create some funky Template loops and also clever CSS or javascript to float and set widths of each column.

Hope this helps