[SOLVED] How to use blocks from sidebar elsewhere on page
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Retroguy
Joined: 2010-12-29
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Posted: Wed, 2010-12-29 05:20
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Hi all, I've been playing with G3 for the last few days now and am pretty happy with it. However, I can't figure out how to move individual blocks out of the sidebar and onto other parts of the page. Most specifically, I want to move the RSS feeds section up into the header area and the IPTC metadata onto the page below the photo. If I use the following code
I get everything that is in the sidebar. If I use this... I get a link to the slideshow. How do I just target individual blocks of code? What are the hooks I need to use and where do I find them? TIA and kind regards, {edited to improve the subject heading.} |
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Right now there's no easy API call to do that because the framework is gathering up the sidebar blocks when you do $theme->sidebar_blocks(). However, if you know the module you want you can always request it's block directly. Sof ro the RSS feed, you can do:
<?= rss_block::get("rss_feeds", $theme) ?>and you can get that block. Look in modules/*/helpers/*_block.php to get an idea of what blocks you can access that way.
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Many thanks Bharat,
Your RSS example worked perfectly and I've also managed to cobble together a snippet for IPTC.
Here is the code for anyone that is interested in displaying IPTC data elsewhere on the page.
<?= iptc_block::get("iptc", $theme) ?>Thanks again and congratulations on a great gallery product.
regards,
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Woot!
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