By Tarnaurion on

Hello.

I have a problem with a small module for a client. This module consists only of one block to show some info about the stock.

It took me several hours to get the block just to show up in the block-list (/admin/build/block) on my development server. But when I got it to be shown it was easy from there. I don't know how or why but it suddenly worked. And now it seems the problem is reapeting itself on the production server.

I tried several combinations of enabling and disabling the module, clearing the caches.

This is the code I have right now:

/*
* Implementaion of hook_block
*/
function company_stock_info_block( $op='list', $delta=0 ) {
  if ($op=='list') {
    $blocks[0]['info'] = t('Company stock info');
    $blocks[0]['cache'] = BLOCK_NO_CACHE;
    $blocks[0]['status'] = TRUE;
    $blocks[0]['visibility'] = TRUE;
    return $blocks;
  }
  else if ($op=='view') {
    $block['subject'] = t('company stock info');
    $block['content'] = company_stock_info_fetch();
    return $block;
  }
}

When i try echo 'Test'; just before return $blocks; it prints out the word "Test", so the hook is run. I've tried several different combinations of items in the array (with "info" always on).

I have a few I ideas that might be the cause quirky behaviour:
* The module's name is to long ("company_stock_info" = 3 words). I haven't tried to change the name yet, but is sounds weird that i would have to change it.
* The module is located in sites/companysite.se/modules. We're using a multisite install and we don't want others to be able to use this module.

The function company_stock_info_fetch() fetches an XML-file and parses it. This module doesn't use any database, except the table "cache".

Can anyone see if I'm doing this wrong? Does hook_block have som quirks?

Thank you for reading!
//Andreas Rydberg

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

jlaaker’s picture

jlaaker commented

Tjenare!
Check that you have spelled the filenames exactly as the module name and don´t use Sweedish letters.

junedkazi’s picture

junedkazi commented 
/*
* Implementaion of hook_block
*/
function company_stock_info_block( $op='list', $delta=0 ) {
  if ($op=='list') {
    $blocks[0]['info'] = t('Company stock info');
    $blocks[0]['cache'] = BLOCK_NO_CACHE;
    $blocks[0]['status'] = TRUE;
    return $blocks;
  }
  else if ($op=='view') {
    switch($delta) {
      case 0:
        $block['subject'] = t('company stock info');
        $block['content'] = company_stock_info_fetch();
     break;
     }
    return $block;
  }
}