In the code above, what is the meaning of placing "as="footer_links"?
The as="x" syntax defines a name that templates can use to invoke a block. So, for the following:
<block type="text/html" name="outer_block" as="outer_block" template="outer_block.phtml">
<block type="text/html" name="inner_block" as="inner_block" template="inner_block.phtml">
</block>
Inside of outer_block.phtml, you can invoke this to render inner_block.phtml:
<?php print $this->getChildHtml("inner_block"); ?>
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
Joe
Related
I have two custom magento blocks called "exe2" and "example".
The exe2 block gets the contents of the example block using the getChildHtml function, but it keeps just returning empty strings to me and only the exe2 contents make it to the screen.
Here is my code my code:
exe2 xml file:
<layout version = "0.1.0">
<test_example_view>
<block type = "exemplum_mod2/exe2" name = "exemplum.mod2.exe2" template="exemplum/mod2/exe2.phtml">
<reference name = "exemplum.mod2.exe2">
<block type="exemplum/example" name="exemplum.example" template="exemplum/example1/example.phtml" />
</reference>
</block>
</test_example_view>
example xml file
<layout version="0.1.0">
<default>
<block type="exemplum/example" name="exemplum.example" template="exemplum/example1/example.phtml" />
</default>
Here is the exe2 phtml file that has the getChildHtml call in it:
<h1> 2nd </h1>
<?php
echo $this->getMessage();
echo $this->getChildHtml("exemplum.mod2.exe2");
?>
hello
example.phtml file:
<h1>Hello there</h1>
And finally heres the controller file that loads the blocks:
<?php
class exemplum_example1_ExampleController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action{
public function viewAction(){
$this->loadLayout();
$block = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('exemplum_mod2/exe2');
$block->setTemplate("exemplum/mod2/exe2.phtml");
$this->getLayout()->getBlock('content')->append($block);
$this->renderLayout();
}
}
What is the correct way to add one block as the child block of a another block in the xml file? Every solution that i found on google didn't seem to work in my case so what am i doing wrong here?
I managed to enter the invoice_totals block, however my goal is to insert the block "Invoice History", follow the example:
The code for this:
<adminhtml_sales_order_invoice_new>
<reference name="invoice_totals">
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_totals_item" name="teste" template="module/name/sales/order/view/nota_fiscal.phtml" />
</reference>
</adminhtml_sales_order_invoice_new>
I need add this same field, but in Invoice History, like this:
This to create a new invoice, Thanks for help.
try with this code :
<adminhtml_sales_order_invoice_addcomment>
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_comments_view" name="test" template="module/name/sales/order/view/nota_fiscal.phtml"></block>
</adminhtml_sales_order_invoice_addcomment>
I'm trying to change template for 'form' block in such layout:
<adminhtml_sales_order_create_index>
...
<reference name="root">
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create" name="content">
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_form" template="sales/order/create/form.phtml" name="form">
...
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_shipping_method" template="sales/order/create/abstract.phtml" name="shipping_method">
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_shipping_method_form" template="sales/order/create/shipping/method/form.phtml" name="form" />
</block>
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_billing_method" template="sales/order/create/abstract.phtml" name="billing_method">
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_billing_method_form" template="sales/order/create/billing/method/form.phtml" name="form" />
</block>
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_newsletter" template="sales/order/create/abstract.phtml" name="newsletter">
<block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_newsletter_form" template="sales/order/create/newsletter/form.phtml" name="form" />
</block>
...
I do
<adminhtml_sales_order_create_index>
<reference name="form">
<action method="setTemplate">
<template>my_module/sales/order/create/form.phtml</template>
</action>
</reference>
</adminhtml_sales_order_create_index>
But this does not work. I think because block with name form exist in several places more after. I just want to change it in block type="adminhtml/sales_order_create_form". How can I do this?
#input
Rewrite of block is not the best appoach. It is better to observe 'core_block_abstract_to_html_before' event and change template there I think. Like:
if ($observer->getBlock() instanceof Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Create_Form) {
$observer->getBlock()->setTemplate('my_module/newtemplate.phtml');
}
This works and is better because you will not get modules conflict if somebody else will rewrite this block. But I thought that may be possible on layout level..
Whilst not the prettiest solution I too do not know of a way of setting a template on a non unique form reference.
Warning this is pretty gross, and I am really not sure of the side affects and for some reason calling setTemplate in the constructor is not enough I guess this is being called at a earlier or later stage than the parents
class My_Module_Block_Adminhtml_Sales_Order_Create_Form extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Create_Form
{
public function _toHtml()
{
$this->setTemplate('my_module/sales/order/create/form.phtml');
return parent::_toHtml();
}
}
Add the write to your Module
<blocks>
<adminhtml>
<rewrite>
<sales_order_create_form>My_Module_Block_Adminhtml_Sales_Order_Create_Form</sales_order_create_form>
</rewrite>
</adminhtml>
</blocks>
I really hope there is a better solution than this.
your right, thats the reason why its not working.
i can't think of a clean way because of this bad naming.
However there are several options that are not clean but will work:
1 option: copy the whole sales.xml into your own admin layout folder and change the template there directly.
2 option: "rewriting" "Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Create_Form" and set the template from the code
3 option: subscribe to "adminhtml_block_html_before" and listen for the right block and change the template then.
However if you write a community module non of these options are really good.
if it is your own project i would go for option 1
hope that helps
For overwriting the form name form.phtml file from the billing_method you should do the following:
In the config.xml:
<core_block_abstract_to_html_before>
<observers>
<mymodule_core_block_abstract_to_html_before>
<class>MyModule_Model_MyPath</class>
<method>setTemplateFile</method>
</mymodule_core_block_abstract_to_html_before>
</observers>
</core_block_abstract_to_html_before>
and in your observer:
public function setTemplateFile(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
{
if ($observer->getBlock() instanceof Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Create_Billing_Method_Form) {
$observer->getBlock()->setTemplate('mymodule/sales/order/create/billing/method/form.phtml');
}
}
I am creating a module that will have its own page at mysite.com/memymodule/index/index
I want to add functionality from a template file from at templates/me/template.phtml
I have an index controller like this:
<?php
class me_mymodule_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action {
public function indexAction() {
$this->loadLayout();
$this->renderLayout();
}
}
?>
I have a layout update mymodule.xml that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
<mymodule_index_index>
<reference name="content">
<block type="core/template" name="me.mymodule" template="me/template.phtml" />
</reference>
</mymodule_index_index>
</layout>
The frontName of the module is mymodule
When the page renders the content block is completely empty and the content of template.phtml is completely ignored.
Help much appreciated :-)
Try this Code within your Controller's Action -
var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('core/layout')->getUpdate()->getHandles());
exit("Your Layout Path is ".__LINE__." in ".__FILE__);
This code tells you about the Tag which you need to create within Layout.xml.
Also check Config.xml that the Layout Update Section is correctly defined or not.
Hope it'll be beneficial for you.
THANKS
I'm working on a Magento 1.6 site, which has the following xml inside the home page's CMS "Layout Update XML" field:
<reference name="content">
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.category.home" as="homecategory" template="catalog/category/homecategory.phtml" />
</reference>
As the template shows randomized categories, I would like to disable caching for this block.
To do so, I attempted using getChildHtml('sub-block-template', false) with the following:
(homecategory has $this->getChildHtml('random_categories', false) in its template)
<reference name="content">
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.category.home" as="homecategory" useCache="false" template="catalog/category/homecategory.phtml">
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.category.home.randcats" as="random_categories" useCache="false" template="catalog/category/random.phtml" />
</block>
</reference>
So now I'm stuck, wondering why I can't prevent caching of that block, despite using the 'false' argument.
I had this same problem. I beleive it has to do something with the block type of type="catalog/navigation". I've seen this disabling of caching work on other types of blocks. Here is a fix for this block type and this problem:
phtml file change: make sure the second param is false
echo $this->getChildHtml('topCategoriesList',false);
xml file change:
Add these actions to the block
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="topCategoriesList" as="topCategoriesList" template="catalog/navigation/categorylist.phtml">
<action method="unsetData"><key>cache_lifetime</key></action>
<action method="unsetData"><key>cache_tags</key></action>
</block>
Have you tried forcing it by creating a new custom block type and overloading the caching functions? Extend the Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Random class and create an empty pseudo-constructor:
protected function _construct() {}
This will prevent inheriting adding cache tags, lifetime, and other metadata to the block object. Then you can overload the cache key info as well so that it doesn't use any existing (or enabled) cache blocks. For example:
public function getCacheKeyInfo()
{
return array(
'MY_CACHE_TAG',
Mage::app()->getStore()->getId(),
(int)Mage::app()->getStore()->isCurrentlySecure(),
Mage::getDesign()->getPackageName(),
Mage::getDesign()->getTheme('template')
);
}