Magento CMS - widgets in widgets

Question

I have a problem with the magento cms. The perfect solution would be to have widgets nested in another widgets (similar approach like TYPO3 FCEs). I've got a lot of problems with escaping, editing and saving this deeply nested structure. Is there a better way to accomplish this? What I actually want is to create elements with a certain html frame with the possibility to insert another elements of the similar kind. You can think about it as of bootstrap elements, where I want something like row-element containing col-elements containing other elements. I know, that it can be done with static blocks, but the usability is quite poor.

Would appreciate any ideas or suggestions!

Answer 1

Haven't tested this but if you have a widget that loads a static block you could add another widget in that static block again and so on. Basically having widget-ception.

It would, I guess, look something like this:

class[Namespace]_[Module]_Block_Widget
   extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
      implements Mage_Widget_Block_Interface
{
    protected $_serializer = null;

    protected function _construct()
    {
        $this->_serializer = new Varien_Object();
        parent::_construct();
    }

    /**
     * Produce links list rendered as html
     *
     * @return string
     */
    protected function _toHtml()
    {
        $staticBlockId = $this->getData('static_block_id');

        return $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId($staticBlockId)->toHtml()
    }
}