Difference between revisions of "Dynamic Blocks"

/**
* Returns blocks for this plugin that should appear when COM_showBlocks is run
*
* NOTE: this MUST return the label/value pairs in the following format
* $items[] = array('label1' => 'value', 'label2' => 'value')
* Basic available labels are..
*   name     Name of block (BLOCK_ID)
*   type       Must always be set 'dynamic' unless you use advanced API labels
*                Advanced API means you set all fields that COM_showBlocks 
*                expects to see from the blocks table. All labels are column names
*   title        Title of block
*   blockorder     Block order number
*   content         Body of the block (the html output)
*   help            Optional url to a help page
*
*  You must only return left or right blocks based on $side and
*  you must also do your own security checks. Everything you send 
*  will show up on a page load
* 
*
* 
*/
function plugin_getBlocks_glcommerce($side, $topic='' )
{
    global $_CONF, $_USER, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS, $REQUEST_URI, $sess, $db;
    // only show on a page in the plugin's dir
    If (in_string('glcommerce', $REQUEST_URI))
   {
        // generate left blocks
        if ($side=='left')
        {

            $display1 = glc_makemenu();
            $display2 = glc_latestprod();

            $items[] = array('name' => 'glcommerce_1',
                                           'type' => 'dynamic',
                                           'onleft' => 1,
                                           'title' => 'Shop Menu', 
                                           'blockorder' => 1,
                                           'content' => $display1, 
                                           'help' => '/glcommerce/help.html');

            $items[] = array('name' => 'glcommerce_2',
                                           'type' => 'dynamic',
                                           'onleft' => 1,
                                           'title' => 'Latest Products ',
                                           'blockorder' => 1,
                                           'content' => $display2,
                                           'help' => '/glcommerce/help.html');

        } else {
        // else generate right blocks
            $display3 = glc_featuredprod()'
            $display4 = glc_minicart();

            $items[] = array('name' => 'glcommerce_3', 
                                           'type' => 'dynamic',
                                           'onleft' => 0,
                                           'title' => 'Featured Stuff',
                                           'blockorder' => 1,
                                           'content' => $display3, 
                                           'help' => '/glcommerce/help.html'); 

            $items[] = array('name' => 'glcommerce_4',
                                           'type' => 'dynamic',
                                           'onleft' => 0,
                                           'title' => 'My Cart', 
                                           'blockorder' => 1, 
                                           'content' => $display4, 
                                           'help' => '/glcommerce/help.html'); 

       }

   }
   return $items;
}

/**
* gets Geeklog blocks from plugin's
*
* Returns data for blocks on a given side and, potentially, for
* a given topic.
*
* @param        string      $side       Side to get blocks for (right or left for now)
* @param        string      $topic      Only get blocks for this topic
* @return   array of block data
*
*/
function PLG_getBlocks( $side, $topic='')
{
    global $_PLUGINS;

    $ret = array();
    foreach ($_PLUGINS as $pi_name)
    {
        $function = 'plugin_getBlocks_' . $pi_name;
        if (function_exists($function))
        {
            $items = $function($side, $topic='');
            if (is_array ($items))
            {
                $ret = array_merge ($ret, $items);
            }
        }
    }

    // future code to do a lib-custom function
    /*
    if (function_exists('CUSTOM_getBlocks')) {
       $cust_items .= CUSTOM_getBlocks($side, $topic='');
       if (is_array ($cust_items)) {
          $ret = array_merge ($ret, $cust_items)
       }
    }
    */
    return $ret;
}