I've figured out how to include a view but having difficulty working out how to include my user login block on the front page. Any hints?

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dublin drupaller’s picture

dublin drupaller commented

Not quite sure what you mean...

If you go to blocks -> enable the login block and then configure the login block to appear on the 'front_page' only. that should do it for you.

To make the login block appear in the "centre" column, instead of in the left-side/right-side blocks...you can try something along these lines: http://drupal.org/node/64364

Dub

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adub commented

I probably should have mentioned that I'm using the 'full' setting on front_page to have a completely different layout. I need a snippet to include a block basically. In my template page.tpl.php that would look something like:

if ($sidebar_right != ""){   print $sidebar_right; }

but this doesn't work for front_page...

dublin drupaller’s picture

dublin drupaller commented

2 alternatives:

1/ try thePlacing the contents of a block in any location handbook page.

2/ If you're familiar with template.php and tpl.php layout files, I you could try this alternative method of customising your front page..

HANDBOOK >> php template snippets >>customising full page layouts (scroll down for the front page switcher.

Hope that helps

Dub

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adub commented

1. doesn't work. I'll try 2. but does that mean I'm hitting a limitation of front_page module? Not being critical, just curious - should I maybe be declaring some global vars or writing wrappers in template.php for these kind of snippets to work properly in front_page?

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adub commented

oops my bad. 1. does work after all. The block name is 'user' if anyone else is trying this.

dublin drupaller’s picture

dublin drupaller commented
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Status: Active » Fixed

glad you got it sorted.

Dub

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gorgo commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Not working for me...

Isn't there a way to actually include regions so that when I set up blocks to appear in certain regions they work with the code I place in front_page?

I also tried print $mission; to get the site's mission on the page but that didn't work for me either....

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timhilliard commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing this as Drupal 4 is no longer supported.