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Output Filter: separate content into columns

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    Everett Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago
    Has anyone written an output filter that separates content into columns? Something like:

    [[*content:columns=`3`]]


    Where 3 is the number of columns you want your content separated into.

    Or perhaps 
    [[*content:2columns=`100`]]


    Where 100 is the number of words or characters that should be in each column... but that wouldn’t work all the time if your content had a huge amount of words in it.

    There would have to be a way of defining what HTML tags should be used to separate the columns since output filters don’t allow for more than one parameter.

    Thoughts?
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      BobRay Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago
      Could you do that with a mini-CSS files and a snippet that injects the proper CSS file with $modx->regClientCss() by checking the &columns property (or the value of a TV)? That would better separate form from content, IMO.
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        Lucas Reply #3, 15 years, 2 months ago
        Quote from: Everett at Aug 09, 2011, 08:40 PM

        There would have to be a way of defining what HTML tags should be used to separate the columns since output filters don’t allow for more than one parameter.
        I guess you could do something like this:
        [[*content:columns=`3|div`]]

        columns:
        <?php
$output = '';

$options = explode('|',$options);
$cols    = $options[0];
$tag     = $options[1];

$cols = ... ; // split $input into a $cols part array

foreach ($cols as $col) {
    $output .= '<'.$tag.'>'.$col.'</'.$tag.'>'."\n";
}
return $output;


        Sorry I was too lazy to work out the code for splitting the input text into columns laugh But if you find a solution, please do post it back here. You’ll obviously need to ensure that words don’t get split down the middle.