displaying field from node on page in url in block

Posted by jdesrig on June 21, 2012 at 8:58pm

I want to put a link in a block which will pull its url from a url field in the node being displayed on the page on which the block is. Meaning, the block will contain a different url for each different node-info page. How can I reference this node in the block?

Comments

Start with hook_block

Posted by da_solver on June 21, 2012 at 10:38pm

Hi,
I didn't understand all of your requirements. However, for Drupal 6 you'll need to implement hook_block (to display custom content in a block). The api docs are here http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer%21hooks%21core.php/function/hook_block/6.

That should get you started. Once you've made some progress, you might have so more detailed questions.

Hope that helps :)
Good Luck.

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use arg() function

Posted by mahesh85 on June 22, 2012 at 9:37am

In your block code use following conditions of example

<?php
   if (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(1) != 'edit') {
     $arg = arg(1); // this gives you nid of node . 
     $node = node_load($arg);
     $field = $node->your_feild;
   }
?>