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- Context layouts
- ---------------
- Context layouts provides a formalized way for themes to declare and switch
- between page templates using Context. It is a continuation of an old Drupal
- themer's trick to switch to something besides the standard `page.tpl.php` file
- for a variety of special-case pages like the site frontpage, login page, admin
- section, etc.
- Requirements
- ------------
- In order to use context layouts, your site must meet a few conditions:
- - Context and Context layouts modules are enabled (`admin/modules`).
- - You are using a theme which provides and has declared multiple layouts. (See
- "Example themes" for themes you can try.)
- Basic usage
- -----------
- Once you have layouts enabled, you can have a context trigger the usage of a
- particular layout in either the admin interface (`admin/structure/context`) or
- inline context editor. Different layouts may have fewer or greater regions than
- the default page template, so adjust your blocks accordingly.
- Supporting context layouts in your theme
- ----------------------------------------
- You can add layouts support to your theme by declaring additional layouts in
- your theme's info file. Here is an example:
- `example.info`
- name = "Example"
- description = "Example theme"
- core = "6.x"
- engine = "phptemplate"
- regions[left] = "Left sidebar"
- regions[right] = "Right sidebar"
- regions[content] = "Content"
- regions[footer] = "Footer"
- ; Layout: Default
- layouts[default][name] = "Default"
- layouts[default][description] = "Simple two column page."
- layouts[default][template] = "page"
- layouts[default][regions][] = "content"
- layouts[default][regions][] = "right"
- ; Layout: Columns
- layouts[columns][name] = "3 columns"
- layouts[columns][description] = "Three column page."
- layouts[columns][stylesheet] = "layout-columns.css"
- layouts[columns][template] = "layout-columns"
- layouts[columns][regions][] = "left"
- layouts[columns][regions][] = "content"
- layouts[columns][regions][] = "right"
- layouts[columns][regions][] = "footer"
- Each layout is declared under `layouts` with the key as the identifier that will
- be used by context for this layout. You may use any reasonable machine name for
- each layout, but note that `default` is special -- it will be the default layout
- for your theme if no other layout is specified.
- The following keys can be declared for each layout:
- - `name`: The human readable name for this layout, shown in the admin UI.
- - `description`: A short description of your layout, same as above.
- - `stylesheet`: A stylesheet to be included with the layout. Optional.
- - `template`: The name of the template file for this layout, without the
- `.tpl.php` extension.
- - `region`: An array of regions supported by this layout. Note that any of the
- regions listed here **must also be declared** in the standard theme `regions`
- array.
- Example themes
- --------------
- - Cube, a subtheme included with [Rubik][1] provides a variety of layouts.
- - [Ginkgo][2] the default theme included with Open Atrium.
- [1]: http://github.com/developmentseed/rubik/downloads
- [2]: http://github.com/developmentseed/ginkgo/downloads
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