PHP Snippets - How to invoke an Aggregator Feed block?

By ALT83 on 29 Jul 2007 at 03:08 UTC

Hi,

I'm using the frontpage.module which means I need to manually invoke certain blocks to display them. The following format has worked for me for Views.module blocks and Tagadelic blocks, but doesn't seem to work for the standard Aggregator.module, any thoughts what I'm doing wrong?

I'm trying to display the latest news from the 1st feed I added (which has a CSS id of #block-aggregator-feed-1).

$block = module_invoke('aggregator-feed', 'block', 'view', 1);
print $block['content'];

Thanks,

Alex

Comments

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mooffie commented 29 July 2007 at 09:42

It should be:

$block = module_invoke('aggregator', 'block', 'view', 'feed-1');
print $block['content'];

any thoughts what I'm doing wrong?

First, you need to call the aggregator module, not the non-existent aggregator-feed module. Second, this specific module expects block IDs of the form feed-n or category-n.

When you see a string of the form "#block-aggregator-feed-1" you should keep in mind that is stands for "#block-some_module_name-some_block_id".

Perfecto thanks! :)

ALT83 commented 29 July 2007 at 09:53

Perfecto thanks! :)

and to pull in a little more functionality?

texas-bronius commented 1 October 2007 at 14:40

This thread has answered my initial question (how to invoke a particular block when not using a real theme) and whetted my appetite for a step further: I'm using the simplenews module, and following your snippet, I now successfully see the output of the simple news module block on the page:

<?php
  $block = module_invoke('simplenews', 'block', 'view', 'newsletter-1');
  print $block['content'];
?>

but how to get the module to actually receive and process the subscription's form post?

This is for a one-time, front_page-only bandage page while the rest of the site is being developed behind the scenes.

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oh.

texas-bronius commented 1 October 2007 at 20:22

quick update here.. I think module_invoke is enough (right?), and that I'm actually having problems with the configuration of the module itself. I will post back here if I discover anything new, but if anyone sees my folly based on what I provided, I am of course all ears!

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doesn't work...

safetypin

Memphis, Tennessee

commented 22 September 2008 at 20:32

Any idea why this wouldn't work? I'm using this code inside a block, to pull in several different block views of news feeds and display them in a single (manually added) block. This works fine with views, but I also can't find any way to bring the aggregated news items into a view. This code works perfectly if I have views set up for local stories, but I'm trying to do the same thing with stories from another site.

<ul class="front-page-news">
<li id="alumni-tab" class="active"><a href="#" onclick="news_swap('alumni-news-block','alumni-tab');return false;">Alumni</a></li>
<li id="athletic-tab"><a href="#" onclick="news_swap('athletic-news-block','athletic-tab');return false;">Athletics</a></li>
</ul>
<?php
$alumni = module_invoke('aggregator', 'block', 'view', 'feed-2');
$athletics = module_invoke('aggregator', 'block', 'view', 'feed-3');
?>
<div id="alumni-news-block">
<?php print $alumni['content'];?>
</div>
<div id="athletic-news-block" style="display:none">
<?php print $athletics['content'];?>
</div>

P.S. I'm running d5.10.