Adding columns in Article?

When viewing an article, it's just one big article page.

Well, I want my article page to have two columns, on the right side will show banners (or boxes). How do I modify my Article page?

Good question!

This is an easy mod, but you guys can probably improve the CSS for this.

1) Open tmpl_uni/css/articles, and add these at the bottom:

#container {
width: 800px;
}

#content {
width: 75%;
float: left;
}

#sidebar {
width: 20%;
margin-top: 30px;
margin-left: 75%;
}

2) In inc/classes/BxDolArticles.php, find the getArticle function and replace everything between <<<EOF with:

<div id="container">

<div class="navigationLinks">
<span><a href="articles.php">{$sArticlesC}</a></span>
<span>&gt;</span>
<span><a href="articles.php?catID={$aArticle['CategoryID']}&amp;action=viewcategory">{$sCategoryName}</a></span>
<span>&gt;</span>
<span>{$sTitle}</span>
</div>

<br /><br />
<div id="content">
<div class="articleBlock">
<div class="mainTitle">{$sTitle}</div>
<div class="date">{$aArticle['Date']}</div>
<div>{$sText}</div>
</div>
</div>


<div id="sidebar">

<h2>SIDE BAR CONTENT</h2>
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</div>


</div>

When I try to do this, I just get th side bar content appearing above the Article categories and not on any other page.

Any idea what I am doing wrong? I really want this functionality.

Thanks.

Cory

I figured it out, I was putting the code in the wrong place.

At first, I put it after the first getArticle <<<EOF

Then realized it was the wrong place, so finally found the right one at line 248, so replaced:

<div class="navigationLinks">
<span><a href="articles.php">{$sArticlesC}</a></span>
<span>&gt;</span>
<span><a href="articles.php?catID={$aArticle['CategoryID']}&amp;action=viewcategory">{$sCategoryName}</a></span>
<span>&gt;</span>
<span>{$sTitle}</span>
</div>
<div class="articleBlock">
<div class="mainTitle">{$sTitle}</div>
<div class="date">{$aArticle['Date']}</div>
<div>{$sText}</div>
</div>

With the new code.

I did revise it a little to give me a vertical line between the side bar and content.

I am now trying to see if I can use php Includes to add blocks to the page?

Cory

Ok, so now, does anyone know how I could add a block, like those on homepage, to the sidebar content?

I tried taking code for, say, Recent Articles from templates/base/scripts/BxBaseIndex.php and placing it in the area and keep getting errors. Any ides?

Cory