By tonyp001 on

I'm writing a module that interacts with Organic Groups. One thing I'm trying to do is create a block that appears whenever the "group" content type is shown. I would like for the block to appear when the user enables my module and disappear when its disabled.
I was thinking I could use the nodeapi and add the block when someone views the "group" content type, but I wasn't sure how to declare a block for a content type that wasn't my own...
Does anyone have any idea how this could be done?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

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agentrickard
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Just use hook_block normally, but only load your block under certain conditions.

OG does this, so look at og_block() -- there is even some logic there for determining when you are viewing an OG page. See og_block_details(), for instance.

function og_block_details() {
  // only display group details if we have a group context
  if (($node = og_get_group_context()) && node_access('view', $node)) {
    // allow other og-enabled node types to provide their own block details
    $block = module_invoke($node->type,'og_block_details',$node);
    if (!$block) {
      $block = og_og_block_details($node);
    }
    return $block;
  }
}

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