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losttrip

Mitglied

Show sidebar on page if it is included in GlobalBlock array

I have a site which uses the "has_block_content" snippet to hide the sidebar if there is no section appointed to "block 2".

<?php if (has_block_content(2)) { ?>
    <div class="sidebar">
        <?php globalBlock(17, true, true, array(6,12,24,25,26,27) ); ?>
        <?php page_content(2); ?>
    </div>
<?php } ?>

As you might notice, I am also trying to use the globalblock module to show section 17 on select pages.  I'm eventually going to have multiple global block entries for different sections on dozens of pages.

<?php globalBlock(17, true, true, array(6,12,24,25,26,27) ); ?>

The problem is, most of the pages where I want the globalblock to appear do not have any Block 2 content... so the sidebar does not appear, and therefore the globalblock section content does not appear.

Is there a way to check for "has_block_content" AND to see if the page is in the globalblock array?

I know another option is to add a section picker to every page, but there are dozens of pages, so I was trying to find a more economical solution.

Any help would be appreciated.

florian

Administrator

Re: Show sidebar on page if it is included in GlobalBlock array

I guess it could work to buffer the output, put it together in one variable and then write it on the page, something like

<?php
ob_start();
globalBlock(17, true, true, array(6,12,24,25,26,27) );
page_content(2);
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
if (strlen($content) > 50) {
  echo '<div class="sidebar">';
  echo $content;
  echo '</div>';
}

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losttrip

Mitglied

Re: Show sidebar on page if it is included in GlobalBlock array

You're the best!  Thanks for giving me the inspiration I needed to put the pieces together.

Since the globalBlock module already has buffering capabilities, I implemented the following:

<?php $buffer = globalBlock ( 17, true, true, "6,12,24,25,26,27"  ); ?>

<?php if (has_block_content(2) || (strlen($buffer) > 50)) { ?>
    <div class="sidebar">
        <?php echo $buffer; ?>
        <?php page_content(2); ?>
    </div>
<?php } ?>

Thank you again!