I'm trying to display a static block in Magento as a popup window, but can't seem to get the code to work.
I've found code in various places on the internet that seems to be fairly close to what I want but I can't get any results. I've used the basic code to return the "top links" to my site so I know that the basics work.
I've created a delpopup.php script in my Magento root folder and put in this code:
<?php
require_once('app/Mage.php');
umask(0);
$layout = Mage::app()
->getLayout();
$layout
->getUpdate()
->addHandle('default')
->load();
$layout
->generateXml()
->generateBlocks();
echo '<p>before</p>';
echo $layout
->createBlock('cms/block')
->setBlockId('delivery-info')
->toHtml();
echo '<p>after</p>';
?>
Unfortunately the code doesn't display the static block. That part of the output is blank.
The idea is that I can place a link in a regular page in Magento and have my delivery into pop up. Like this:
<a title="" onclick="popWin('http://www.mysite.com.au/delpopup.php', 'deliveryinfo', 'width=300,height=300,left=0,top=0,location=no,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;" href="#">Delivery Info</a>
Basically I want to be able to display a static block in a popup window that uses my Magento site's theme. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
As I thought, the problems lies on incorrect Block Id.
Now that the cms is able to be shown.
So now the question is: how to get the theme work?
Not really sure what do you mean by theme, if what you mean is css that was included in <default> tag, you can use:
Mage::getDesign()->setTheme('your theme');
echo $layout->getBlock('head')->toHtml();
After the xml has been finished generated, it means put that code after:
$layout
->generateXml()
->generateBlocks();
I'd first setup a controller and block(s) to render the type of layout that you want to throw within the popup. So, instead of doing this within a standalone php file, do it within the regular mage framework within a specific controller action.
Then, once you have that working - the question is how to pull it into a popup. I'd go with maybe a nice jquery popup widget that allows you to specify a URL to hit - and then just pass in the one that you prepped for step 1 above.
You may want to look at adminhtml/default/default/template/popup.phtml for inspiration. That's actually a popup template for the admin, not the frontend, but you can see what they've done.
They're pulling in some standard magento blocks including the head block, which should pull in all your CSS and JS, in order to give you the general color scheme / look&feel of your frontend, but without all of the navigation, etc.
Related
I've been trying to show product details on homepage. After long hours searching on google and stackoverflow, i've come with this solution:
Mage::register('product',Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load('17'));
$block = Mage::app()->getLayout()
->createBlock('catalog/product_view')
->setData('area','frontend')
->setTemplate('catalog/product/view.phtml');
echo $block->toHtml();
It does render the catalog/product_view block but no its children, i'd like to understand how to render the children too ?
Note: my homepage as the layout "myviewer.phtml" and the code above is in "myviewer.phtml".
You are currently manually creating the product view block and not using the standard layout xml, so you are not getting any of the default child blocks that would be loaded on the product page via the product page layout handle;
catalog_product_view
Viewing this layout handle in the catalog.xml file will show you which blocks are loaded, and importantly which child blocks are added to the block named 'product.info' which usually uses the template section you are trying to render.
If you view the product page template 'catalog/product/view.phtml' that you are rendering, you will see it calls blocks that will not be available such as;
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('addtocart') ?>
So to fix this you have two options,
Manually initialize and add each of the child blocks to the product block you are creating using the append() method.
Or
Update the controller action that was used to load and render the page to include the product page layout handle. Call the following in the controller,
$update = $this->getLayout()->getUpdate();
$update->addHandle('catalog_product_view');
This will cause the layout to include all of the correct product page child blocks, then in the template just call;
$_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load('17');
Mage::register('product',$_product);
Mage::register('current_product',$_product);
$block = Mage::app()->getLayout()->getBlock('product.info');
echo $block->toHtml();
Adding the handle could be done in the controller which would need to be overridden using a rewrite in a custom module (there are already lots of articles on this).
Use an event observer for any event fired before the controller action.
Magento creates its block hierarchy based on its layout XML configuration. For example, the catalog/product_view block is used in the catalog.xml layout file (usually found in app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/catalog.xml). This file also defines all of the children blocks of the catalog/product_view block.
Magento decides which layout instructions to carry out depending on the active layout handles. For example, the catalog.xml file references the catalog_product_view layout handle, which corresponds to the catalog module, product controller, view action. Whenever that specific controller action is invoked, that layout is applied.
In your case, the home page is probably a CMS page, which doesn't apply the catalog_product_view layout handle (it typically applies the cms_page handle). As such, the block hierarchy is not defined correctly for you to utilize the catalog/product_view block.
There are many ways of resolving this issue, but first you have to think about exactly what you're trying to do. If you try to use the catalog/product_view block, your home page will look almost exactly like a regular product page, which may or may not be what you want. One way of achieving that is to use the <update/> tag, which takes another layout handle and merges it with the current layout handle.
I recommend reading some more into Magento's layout XML system. Alan Storm has some great resources on the subject, such as this blog post (warning, it's a bit outdated), and his book on Magento's layout system.
you can do it by inserting in CMS > Pages > Home
{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" LATEST="0" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}
In this case you have to change in template/catalog/product/list.phtml
Find this code around in lines 74 , 133 and 180
<?php
$_nameAfterChildren = $this->getChild('name.after')->getSortedChildren();
foreach($_nameAfterChildren as $_nameAfterChildName):
Replace adding a if statement , should be something like this :
<?php
$_nameAfter = $this->getChild('name.after');
// New if here
if($_nameAfter):
$_afterChildren = $this->getChild('name.after')->getSortedChildren();
foreach($_afterChildren as $_afterChildName):
In the category admin under Display settings I have assigned a static block. This is displaying fine but I need to position it further down the page. I've been looking for a callback like the generic getChildHtml but for blocks.
I was also thinking that the static block code that I normally use could be change from
<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('block-name')->toHtml();?>
to something like this
<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->toHtml();?>
but alas it did not work. I could possibly be done with the local.xml file but I'm not sure how to target it.
Bit stuck so any help would be greatly appreciated
I've come up with a workaround. It's not ideal but it's working. Instead of using the static block option in the category page I've added the static block to the list.phtml template. I then create a variable that gets the current category name and append it to a string.
<?php $blockid = 'category_banner_' . preg_replace('/\s+/', '', strtolower(Mage::registry('current_category')->getName())); ?>
I can then call this using the standard static block call
<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId($blockid)->toHtml();?>
The last thing to do is make the static block and as long as it's named category_banner_CATEGORYNAME it should work fine.
As I said it's a bit of a workaround, but for the life of me I can't work out how to reposition the one set in the admin.
If anyone can come up with a better solution I would be eternally grateful
I'm trying to move the 'Estimate Shipping' block, that usually sits in the Cart, to a CMS page.
I've successfully moved the form, however, upon clicking the 'Estimate..' button, I get redirected to the Cart.
I've tried changing
action="<?php echo $this->getUrl('checkout/cart/estimatePost') ?>"
to the cms page url:
`action="getUrl('delivery/estimatePost') ?>"`
and also a general:
action="<?php echo $this->getUrl('*/*/estimatePost') ?>"`
but then I just get a 404.
You should keep action="getUrl('checkout/cart/estimatePost') ?>" or otherwise you will need to create a different controller action which generate a different block content to allow to display in your cms block but it's not so easy as you try to do.
The string checkout/cart/estimatePost means module/controller/action, if you change that of course he won't find your page. That's why you need to develop a solution more complex with a mix of controller and based on the block classes used while the action estimatePost is called.
Is it possible in Joomla to place a certain article in a template, additionally to the normal content? I want the article to show up on every page.
You can simply take it from the databse and print its content. In the template, where you want to show the article, write this:
$id=/*Id of the article to show*/;
$db=&JFactory::getDBO();
$db->setQuery("SELECT * FROM #__content WHERE id=$id");
$item=$db->loadObject();
echo $item->introtext;
UPDATE: ENABLE PLUGINS
I can't find where i've used that code and i can't copy-paste it, so i try to write it again by looking at the view.html.php of the com_content:
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
$dispatcher =& JDispatcher::getInstance();
$params = &$mainframe->getParams();
$dispatcher->trigger('onPrepareContent', array (&$item, &$params, 0));
//The last line triggers the onPrepareContent event, so if it does not work maybe you need other events, so try with onAfterDisplayTitle, onBeforeDisplayContent or onAfterDisplayContent
Have you seen this? http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-display/content-embed/7528
It allows you to place any article as a module on your Joomla site. And with modules you can have them displayed site wide.
I have not been able to figure this out for the life of me. I wanted to show the order review step(final step before processing the order) right away on the one page checkout in Magento. Any suggestions? Thanks all.
If you look at the bottom of onepage.phtml, you will see
<?php if($this->getActiveStep()): ?>
accordion.openSection('opc-<?php echo $this->getActiveStep() ?>');
<?php endif; ?>
which calls Mage_Checkout_Block_Onepage::getActiveStep() to determine which step to show first. You can override this by creating your own onepage.phtml in your theme and changing the block above to be:
accordion.openSection('opc-review');
However, the openSection function only executes if the target element ('opc-review') in this case, has a class of "allow" which is set by Magento's AJAX once the previous checkout steps are completed. You could manually add the "allow" class using prototype, but once you get the step to display, you'll see that it is empty, since the AJAX hasn't populated the content based on the previous steps as the previous steps haven't happened yet!
So... You could create a new block based on Cart.php and insert that into onepage.phtml using $this->getChildHtml('block-id') and the layout xml. You would need to insert it inside the ol#checkoutSteps as an li#opc-summary.section allow or something like that, and make the js change above to be accordion.openSection('opc-summary');
That's the best I can do at the moment for you. HTH,
JD