Comments on: Magento Static Blocks – The Definitive Guide

By: vektor

vektor — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:00:28 +0000

good work bro! now I compleatly understand static blocks. The only thing I want to work out now is working out how to display differnt blocks in the sidebar based on different cat_ids or parent cat_ids.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance

By: Lucjan Wilczewski

Lucjan Wilczewski — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:40:24 +0000

Oups. My comment above was messed up with tags escaping. So without tags:
There is missing one tag in the xml code example – block_id tag around your_block_id within action tag.

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:29:12 +0000

[...] Brad Frost recently blogged about the power of using Magento’s CMS blocks. I’m gonna take it one step further – let’s use the short code Brad Frost shows us in his blog to create custom pages that we can control through PHTML files in our theme; not code that is stored in the database. All you have to do is follow these steps: [...]

By: Nick Rigby

Nick Rigby — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:11:49 +0000

I should add that I am trying to do this on specific products using the “Custom Layout Update” field in the “design” tab when adding/editing a product.

By: Nick Rigby

Nick Rigby — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:10:40 +0000

Great article Brad.

I managed to use your example number 2, but I can’t for the life of me get number 1 working at all? Is there a trick to this or can it only be used in certain places?

I would like to create static blocks for certain promotions, so I can display things like “Buy this item and get a free X” on the product detail page. How would you go about doing this and is it actually possible?

Thanks again for a great article.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:24:14 +0000

OK – I have found out I cannot use the {{…}} syntax in descriptions, etc. I have also found multiple – and inconsistent – syntaxes for adding

haoverview

This seems to be the most widely documented syntax (variants are w & w/o as=, after=, before=, , , etc). Nothing seems to work.

I think I am in the correct file because if I comment out the product.description block it disappears from the generated page.

Can anyone help?

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:36:54 +0000

Is there a way to use the short block (or other syntax) to include a static block through the Admin -> Manage Products -> Description textarea? When I use the short block notation you describe it is not replaced with my static block but is displayed as text. Would it be possible through a Custom Layout Update in the Design section? Thanks, Ken

By: Ole Dahl

Ole Dahl — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:02:09 +0000

ok tx. guess i have to build extension for it to work

By: brad

brad — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:32:09 +0000

Hey Ole,
Thanks for commenting. It sounds like what you’re trying to accomplish is beyond what CMS static blocks can do. Static blocks won’t execute PHP scripts so I would assume you would have to write some PHP files within your template to accomplish your desired functionality. If you’re wondering where to put images and other assets, typically I will keep them in my theme’s skin folder i.e. /skin/frontend/default/your_theme/images/media/your_image.jpg and then just link to them from within my static blocks

By: Ole Dahl

Ole Dahl — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:32:54 +0000

Great article, tho i already are familliar with static blocks.
i just have one problem.
if i make a static block and in that code has program that neeed files and pictures, where do i put this stuff,
fx:
i have a php script m that make greethingcards, so my idea vas to put the
code from the index php in the static bloks, and add the files to same place,
just dont know where to put the stuff.

best regards ole dahl