2 Columns to display my articles

Hi Jesus,

Here's a recipe from my CMSB Cookbook, thecmsbcookbook.com for using as multi-column technique for an image display, but you can easily modify it to show any content (your articles).

Hope it helps,

Jerry Kornbluth

LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF COLUMNS IN A SINGLE ROW IMAGE DISPLAY

Here’s a suggestion from Interactive Tools’ Dave Edis:

The CSS way is to have each image in a div that has something like: style="float: left; width: 200px". This will make them flow from left to right and wrap when they run out of space (you can put them inside a bigger fixed width container).

Or with a table you can have one table cell per image and insert a closing and opening TR every X images. Here's a code snippet that does that:
<?php $maxCols=2; if (@++$count % $maxCols == 0): ?></tr><tr><?php endif; ?>
Which is just a way of saying "Every 2 images insert "</tr><tr>"".

Here’s a single row example using the thumbnail2 image as a link to a detail page, separate Title and Subtitle fields, a hidden border for IE and a fixed height for the image cell so that everything lines up nicely.
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<?php foreach ($your_sectionRecords as $record): ?><?php foreach ($record['image'] as $upload): ?>
<td align=”center” height="350" valign="bottom">
<a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><img src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath2'] ?>" width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth2'] ?>" height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight2'] ?>" alt="" style="border:hidden" /><br /><div align="center" class="medium-title"><?php echo $record['title'] ?></div>
<div align="center" class="medium-text"><?php echo $record['sub_title'] ?></div></a>
</td>
<?php $maxCols=2; if (@++$count % $maxCols == 0): ?></tr><tr><?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach ?><?php endforeach ?>
</tr>
</table>
Similarly, if you’re not using images this code will output a </tr><tr> after every 2 <td>...your content...</td> lines:
<table border="1">
<tr>

<?PHP foreach ($yourrecords as $record): ?>
<td>
<?PHP echo $record['your_content'] ?><br />
</td>
<?PHP $maxCols=2; if (@++$count % $maxCols == 0): ?></tr><tr><?PHP endif; ?>
<?PHP endforeach; ?>
</tr>
</table>
Use your own variable names instead of $yourrecord, but the inserted code can stay the same.