Comments on: Magento: Adding a static block to a view file (AKA: phtml file)

By: emil

emil — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:41:20 +0000

Hi, I got it. Thanks for such a detailed help

By: Mike D

Mike D — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:00:52 +0000

@emil,

To see which template files control different parts of the page just enable “Template Path Hints”.

1. Go To System-> Configuration -> Advanced -> developer -> debug
2. Change the “Current Configuration Scope” to the website.(this is the dropdown list in the top left of the page)
3. Now The “Debug” fieldset set “template path hints” and “add block names to hints” to Yes.

Now when you refresh the frontend you will see the block class and template paths for the different parts of the page. When you found what you wanted set “template Path Hints” back to “No”.

the results files are these two
/app/design/frontend/Yourtheme/YourTheme/template/catalogsearch/result.phtml

AND

/app/design/frontend/Yourtheme/YourTheme/template/catalogsearch/advanced/result.phtml

By: emil

emil — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:51:12 +0000

Hi, and thanks for this tutorial. I am trying to add a static block only on my searchresult page.
I wonder which phtml fil and where should I add this php code to?
best regards
Emil

By: sunil rana

sunil rana — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:21:02 +0000

I found very good example on how to include static blocks.
http://www.phptechi.com/how-to-add-static-block-in-magento.html

By: Daren

Daren — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:47:07 +0000

Wish this link would have been at the top of Google because it would have saved me half a day.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:59:14 +0000

You save my time one more time.
Thanks.

By: Moeed

Moeed — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:02:52 +0000

Thanks Dude. It really works …………. ..

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:30:53 +0000

In magento there are many ways to do this. It really depends on what you are developing.

In the first example it was calling a cms block created in the admin so in that case you probably will not want to create a new method.

In the second example the block that was created was extending “core/template” so in that case the “toHtml()” is the method used to render the html so there is no need to add a new method either.

By: WebFlakeStudio

WebFlakeStudio — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:33:33 +0000

Good approach, thanks.
But it’s recommended to create separate block method for this purposes.

By: Lucio

Lucio — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:44:29 +0000

Great, that is the info that I need. Thank you very much*