Allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses
The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized
layouts for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag and drop content
manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within
that layout. Integration with other systems allows you to create nodes
that use this, landing pages that use this, and even override system
pages such as taxonomy and the node page so that you can customize the
layout of your site with very fine grained permissions.
Panels 3 utilizes the CTools'
system of "context" so that the content you place on the page can be
aware of what is being displayed. For example, in the existing Drupal
setup, a block has no real knowledge of what the primary page is
displaying. There are all kinds of tricks and tools you can use to get
information to the blocks, but this generally means writing PHP code to
scan the URL and pull the data out, which is not a very good thing when
that data should already exist.
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