Plugin Request: Page Templates

[Angryboy]

Perhaps DynPages?

You can define the piece of markup that you want to be editable as a component. Then you place identifiers that say where the content is editable. So for example, with your one for columns you would make two components: column and column-end:

column

Code:

<?php global $args; ?>
  <div style="float: <?php echo $args[0]; ?>; width: <?php echo $args[1]; ?>;">

column-end

Code:

</div>

Then on your page you would simply use the following content to call the whole column:

Code:

{% column 'FLOAT', 'WIDTH' %} COLUMN CONTENT {% column-end %}

Changing 'FLOAT' to the direction of alignment, 'WIDTH' to the width of the column and 'COLUMN CONTENT' to whatever content you want.

Basically, form your markup in a component with the code <?php global $args; ?> at the beginning of your component, then for every part of it that you want to be editable, use <?php echo $args[#]; ?>, numbering the arg accordingly starting from 0. When you use the placeholders on the page, you simply use the format { componentname 'arg0' 'arg1' etc... }. The markup can be as complicated as you need it to be.