Yup, you read that right

Here is a little smarty hack to place a chosen block anywhere within a template using a smarty variable.

Normally placements with blocks in XOOPS are very rigid and for the most parts you are confined to the three column system etc. This smarty hack is an attempt to get away from this structure and to use a less rigid approach to block placement. Basically, I will place a chosen block where I want it and not forced into an area that doesn't work for me.

So now you should be able to place a block , just about anywhere you want within your theme.

It works by accessing a smarty function and pulling the information from the database and displaying the block in the chosen area of your theme.

The hack respects the block configurations and settings. So it will show only on the module page/s selected and only to the groups you have given permissions to view. ( Hopefully )

You can download this script from this location!

Please read the readme.txt for installation and usage.

Note: This is just the first version and there maybe some issues that I have not foreseen. So please report back to me any problems, bugs, security issues or features you may like to see within this hack.

Drawback of this:

At the moment the biggest draw back is that the SQL queries will go up the more of these blocks you add onto your site. Yes, it does uses 'Xoops Caching' but that doesn't respect the main issue of getting the block information. I hope to address this fully in another release.

ATB

Catz

thank you catzwolf...i think this should be shipped with core

all this while i use the method by hervet
http://xoops.instant-zero.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=20&keywords=block

catzwolf, that's very innovative!!!!

I hope, I'll find some time soon to test it.

Thanks guys,

Hope it helps a little :)

Thanks catzwolf_ !

Another alternative is using conditions inside the theme:

Use this where the block would display:
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And then change the left column code:
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In the block admin I would use set "my block title" to display in the left column.

i tried this hack but it doesnt work.. can you exaplain again pls.

where can wee find it beacose the link above is not working

the post is outdated

if you are using 2.4

try defacer for block anywhere

http://www.xuups.com/modules/publisher/visit.php?fileid=14


rember to read the readme..there is a guide on how to use the block anywhere hack
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the website is no longer available but i managed to backup it from archive.org


i like this method because we can use it in php block...where trabis defacer anywhere block can only be use in theme.html or smarty template

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Posted by Herve on 2007/8/25 19:39:06 (383 reads) News by the same author

In a previous article, I was talking to you of the release of one of my modules, Boox, with which you can manage static content which is not approachable by Xoops.

The module is very useful but for this moment you can't manage dynamic content.

It could be useful if you could put in your site's theme, the content from any Xoops module.

I'm showing you a solution on which I have worked.


Before all, please don't ask me how to do it for any other Xoops module, search by yourself, it's more interesting
and it's not hard

A customer for which I am working, wanted to display partners (from the Xoops Smartpartner module) inside the header of his site.

This header does not contains Xoops blocks and this last can't display blocks to this place.


After I had imagine many solutions, I have decided to keep the partners modules so that my customer works in a user interface he used to see.

So, partners are created and managed from the Xoops backoffice, inside the SmartPartner module, but it's another solution which will display partners.

In fact, I'm going to bringback the module's block content !

1/ First, set the block's parameters from the Xoops blocks manager as if you wanted to use it "normally".

For this moment, set the block as visible (we will deactivate it later). In my case, I have set and display the block so show partners.


2/ Once you have done it, go in you database with, for example, PhpMyadmin,
and look at the content of the xoops_newblocks (replace xoops with the prefix you used during your website's installation)

Search for the visibles blocks, you can do it simply with a such query :
SELECT * FROM `xoops_newblocks` WHERE `visible` = 1

Then locate (with its name), the block you made visible in the point 1 and copy somewhere
the content of the field options, in my case it was :
1|0|1|1|id|DESC|1

Copy also the content of the following fields (I have wrote their name and their content) :

dirname : smartpartner
func_file : partners_list.php
show_func : b_partners_list_show
template : partners_block_list.html

3/ Go back in the Xoops blocs manager and hide the block you activated in the point 1

4/ Edit your theme (the file theme.html) and write this where you want to see the block's content :
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<{php}>
include XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/mainfile.php';
include_once XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/class/template.php';
include_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/smartpartner/blocks/partners_list.php');
$result = b_partners_list_show(explode('|','1|0|1|1|id|DESC|1'));
$tpl = new XoopsTpl();
$tpl->assign('block', $result);
$tpl->display('db:partners_block_list.html');
<{/php}>

The red parts must be replaced with the informations you get in the point 2

Don't forget to update your site (and may be to remove the content of the templates_c folder).

That's all !

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@blackrx:
this topic is very old.
besides the block anywhere hack was implemented in the core 2.5.5 so you can use it with the core.