[support] Panels or block ?

[Shai Gluskin]

Michel,

Panels are created "per page", sort of. However, with panels' "contexts,"
which is sort of like a Views argument, you can make one panel page apply to
an unlimited number pages that have the same "context." For example, you
could have a panel that shows node content for that node and then a view in
the block that uses that the user id of the author of that node as the
argument for the view in the block. That might show other recent content
written by that author. So you only have one panel page in that situation,
but it generates dynamic results for every node displayed.

Panels is incredibly powerful. There is definitely a serious learning curve
for it. Personally, I think it is worth the learning curve.

I can't comment on performance.

Shai

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Michel Morelli <michel at ziobuddalabs.it>wrote:

> Hi all. I'm rebuilding  site and I have a "performance problem" with a
> page.
>
> This page needs to  contain text (node body) and a block from a view.
> Now, I can link the block in the "content" region and via block's
> settings I can say Drupal to display this block only when the users are
> viewing that page.
> But I could have the need to have some other pages of this type (with
> other blocks). My question: is this (block-region) the best solution or
> is better to use  "panel" module ?
> And: is the panel modules load for every page or only when it's required ?
>
> Statistic of this site say me that the page views are 1.5M+, 50% are
> from forum and other 50% are internal page.
> This particolar page generate 10K+ page views.
>
> Tnx for all.
>
> M.
>
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