Re: [drupal-devel] Page layout workflow mockup

I have an idea which would help implementing this. There are a lot of functions in Drupal which ends with print theme('page', $output);

These shall be changed to return $output; and menu_execute_active_handler should be changed, too:

- call_user_func_array($menu['items'][$mid]['callback'], $arguments); - return MENU_FOUND; + return call_user_func_array($menu['items'][$mid]['callback'], $arguments);

and then index.php shall have a default clause to print theme('page', $status); -- well, let's rename $status to $return.

After this you may call a page function via module_invoke and put it's output into a block.

An excellent idea. It is very annoying that many functions do their own printing. Makes it hard to reuse the content, as you noted.