[support] Panels or block ?

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

Panels does require more to run that blocks, so you would not want to use it on a site like d.o, however has a lot more fine grained caching built in, than blocks.

Panels is a lot more powerful than blocks and for your average size sites this 12% is really insignificant.

I use panels when I can, and it generally means I don't need to keep going back to a site as my client can modify the page without too much of my help.

Gordon.

On 02/03/2010, at 4:43 AM, KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:

> I remember that Earl Miles admitted during his presentation of Panels 3 during one of the last Drupalcons that there was quite a performance issue with Panels of if I remember correctly 12%. Its a huge module with lots of options, but I would only use it if you construct the whole site on the panel principles and use them then intensively. Maybe if you are bad at theming and have a lot of homepage like pages with interconnected related content it could be useful.
> 
> I try to avoid panels and just use template files, blocks, views arguments, which is the normal Drupal approach and obviously faster than adding an extra huge module. (Just make sure you set block visibility settings very well for each block so they are not calculated on pages where they are not needed.)
> Panels are bypassing most of these which makes it sometimes difficult to understand when you want to do more advanced stuff. Even blocks are basically of no use anymore in panels, but unfortunately you cannot disable them in Drupal 6.
> 
> A nice alternative to panels is http://drupal.org/project/ds, which uses a completely different approach much more sticking to the core architecture of blocks, fields, ...
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/3/1 Michel Morelli <michel at ziobuddalabs.it>
> Shai Gluskin ha scritto:
> > Michel,
> Thanks Shai, I know (a little) "panels" and infact in 10 minutes I have
> create a node of type page (A), a block (from a view based on the
> taxonomy term "class" (from Event vocabulary), html table display type)
> (B) and I have create a node panel page that contains two contents: (A)
> and (B).  In this way my client can modify (A) adding, for example,
> image, video and text. And he can create new "class" in autonomy.
> 
> My questions was if this is the best way to make this type of request
> (performance side is rilevant) or there is a better alternative.
> 
> M.
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