A block type of your own #

A "Notice" block in two looks (info, warning) that editors drag in like any other.

Life cycle: Build, example 35 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents #

1. With templates
2. Then in the Layouts editor
3. Which to choose
4. Check

With templates #

1. Define [BlockDefinition_notice] and AvailableBlocks[]=notice in your extension's explayouts.ini.append.php (since explayouts 1.4.42 the extension's place in ActiveExtensions[] does not matter for blocks).
2. Write explayouts/block/notice.tpl.
3. Clear Template & content and INI caches.

Then in the Layouts editor #

1. The palette's Basic group lists Notice.
2. Drag it in, choose the view type and type the text on the Design tab.
3. Publish layout. The pages that use the layout show the block on their next view.

Which to choose #

Worth it as soon as the same markup would otherwise be copied into many HTML snippets.

Check #

• The block renders ngl-notice ngl-vt-<view type>.

Related pages #

• Add a block type
• Build examples, every page
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.