Alternative to Panels

Submitted by sweetjames on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 22:02
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Hello everyone,
I am currently working on a community based web site using the steps outlined in the Drupal ebook. I have not encountered any major problems but I am kind of relucant to use the Panels module for the user profiles.

Can anyone please suggest workarounds/alternatives to using the Panels module.

P.s: I am using Drupal 6.12.

Thanks in advance

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1. Interested too

Submitted by quchidru on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 21:15.

On this one

2. The only alternative I see is

Submitted by dorien on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 13:04.

The only alternative I see is theming the user profile manually.

3. Re: Alternative to Panels

Submitted by sweetjames on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 23:06.

Thanks for the reply. But just to clarify, when you mean "theming the user profile manually", do you mean actually makes changes to relevant code using either PHP and/or CSS ?

4. I believe so

Submitted by quchidru on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 23:54.

I was looking into that too and that's the only way I know of -
That's why Panels will be so cool when is 'ready' for production

5. not really alternative

Submitted by charos on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 17:03.

but with different perspective : http://drupal.org/project/composite
worth looking....

6. Manual theme user profile

Submitted by albert on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 20:38.

You can theme the user profile page any way you like without panels, if you are not afraid do get your hands dirty with some PHP.

Basically you will need at least to override the template file using user-profile.tpl.php as described here:
http://drupal.org/node/35728

You can add additional variables to this template using a so called 'preprocess'
http://drupal.org/node/223430