By tdellaringa on

Hi folks,

Been trying for a couple days to use module_invoke() to place a block on a static page like so:

<?php
$block = module_invoke('Recent_Articles', 'block', 'view', 0);
print $block['content'];
?>

The problem is, the block created by my Recent_Articles view has a delta (the last argument in module_invoke) that is a *string*, not a number. It appears views write's the wrong type of data to the blocks table. The code above does not work. I assume if I can call the correct delta, I can get the module to work.

Has anyone successfully worked this out? Can you manually change the delta to a number without breaking the view (I'm guessing that is a bad idea...)

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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mean0dspt’s picture

mean0dspt commented

supposedly you just change number into 'string-delta'
$block = module_invoke('Recent_Articles', 'block', 'view', 'block-name-string');

loze’s picture

loze commented

Ive been banging my head to get this for 6.2
i got it to work using
$block = module_invoke('views', 'block', 'view', 'view_name-block_X');
where X is the views block delta (? i think that's what its called) and 'view_name' is the name of your view

so in the above case it would be:
$block = module_invoke(views', 'block', 'view', ''Recent_Articles-block_1');
(assuming that it is the first block defined in this view)

hope that helps someone.

davemybes’s picture

davemybes commented

There is only one block created in this view, so I didn't use anything like "-block_X". If I tried that, it didn't return any data. I simply used the View name as the last parameter.

  $block = module_invoke('views', 'block', 'view', 'Editors_pick'); 
  print $block['content'];

Hope this helps.
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ardnet’s picture

ardnet commented

Hi, what about in Drupal 6?

I follow like what you suggest up there, but that doesn't work for me.
Do you have any other way?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Ardi

vicapow’s picture

vicapow commented

you gotta just go with it even if you don't have multiple blocks and add the "-block_1"

abustamante’s picture

abustamante commented

If you expose form in block from views module, the block's page tell you what is your display name. Later you can return to the normal state of the view.

Dracolyte’s picture

Dracolyte commented

Your syntax works perfectly for me in 6.12. Thanks very much.