[support] using panels to template system pages?

[Christopher M. Jones]

Indeed it does help! Tremendously. I knew there must be something like 
this. Leider, I'm still on my first steps to module development, still 
learning the api, or I would offer to help on such a module. Thanks so much.

Metzler, David wrote:
> This is a bit hackish but I've don'e this successfully using panels2 by
> using custom PHP code.  It involves being able to read a module's
> menu_hook though and write a little PHP,  and being careful about
> security (cause you can bypass menu security this way. 
> 
> The basic outline: 
> 
> 1.  Determine the function being called in the menu_hook, 
> 1.  Create a minipanel (just to abstract the logic and security)
> 2.  Ad a snippet of custom PHP code that calles the function. 
> 3.  Be extra careful to set security on this minipanel as it bypasses
> the menu security mechanism. 
> 
> In your example, the forums page could be loaded into any Panel by
> including the following custom php pane in your mini-panel. 
> 
> $block->content = forum_page(); 
> 
> This mini-pane can then be inserted into any block you have.  Here's a
> more intense example where I'm passing context data to the php custom
> page to add the view cases page to a form that passes node id into the
> function being called. 
> 
> $block->content =
> casetracker_cases_overview($context->data->nid,'state:6'); 
> 
> Your question has sparked some interesting ideas for me with regard to
> creating a module that does this more generically based on the data
> that's already in the  menu system :).  Especially once we get to drupal
> 6 and wildcards in the path.  Wow the possibilities are endless. 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Christopher M. Jones
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:57 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] using panels to template system pages?
> 
> That's plan B. Thanks much for your suggestion. I was hoping that there
> would be a way to do this with panels, because that would be useful in
> other applications. For example, I'd love to bring group forums into the
> group home page.
> 
> Steve Kessler wrote:
>> To add text above the page you might want to look at just using 
>> blocks. If you have a region (or add a region) above the content 
>> region or put a block in the content region you can usually achieve 
>> this. You can then change the settings for the block to only show on
> specific pages.
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>> Steve Kessler
>> Denver DataMan
>> 303-587-4428
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher M. Jones [mailto:cjones at partialflow.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:05 AM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] using panels to template system pages?
>>
>> I'd like to use panels to do things like add text to the top of the 
>> /forum page, but I don't see how to add this as content into the
> panel. 
>> I'm guessing it can't be done, or can't be done easily. Can someone
>>
>> a. Tell me how to do it
>>
>> b. Suggest another strategy.