In Magento 1.x, you could call/print any module’s template block in any other template (phtml) file with the following code: echo $this->getLayout() ->createBlock('newmodule/newblock') ->setTemplate('newmodule/newblock.phtml') ->toHtml(); In Magento 2.x, it’s slightly different. Below is the code to call/print a custom template block in another template file in Magento 2. Suppose, you want to call a template … Read more
In Magento 1.x, you could call/print the CMS Static Block in template file with the following code: echo $this->getLayout() ->createBlock('cms/block') ->setBlockId('your_block_identifier') ->toHTML(); In Magento 2.x, it’s quite similar. Below are the sample codes to show/call template (.phtml) files in Magento 2. Call CMS Static Block in any template (.phtml) file echo $this->getLayout() ->createBlock('Magento\Cms\Block\Block') ->setBlockId('your_block_identifier') ->toHtml(); … Read more
Scenario: I have created a new custom module. Now, I need to edit a default template file. For example:- – I have created a new custom module that adds some functionality to Customer Account section on frontend. – Now, I need to edit the Customer Account Edit template (My Account -> Account Information). – This … Read more
Problem: I am using Magento 1.6 and my login and register page design has problem. It is not taking the template path from my custom theme. Instead, it is taking the template path from base persistent folder. For example, the login template path is taken from frontend/base/default/template/persistent/customer/form/login.phtml instead of frontend/default/MY_THEME/template/customer/form/login.phtml It’s strange how this persistent … Read more
You can easily get controller name, action name, router name and module name in any template file or class file. IN TEMPLATE FILES $this->getRequest() can be used in template (phtml) files. Here is the code: /** * get Controller name */ $this->getRequest()->getControllerName(); /** * get Action name, i.e. the function inside the controller */ $this->getRequest()->getActionName(); … Read more
You can easily call any static block from template (phtml) file. At first, you have to create a static block. Let us suppose, you created a static block with the identifier cool_items. Now, you can call the static block from any phtml file with the help of following code: echo $this->getLayout() ->createBlock('cms/block') ->setBlockId('cool_items') ->toHTML(); Thanks.
In this article, I will be explaining about foreach and section loop used in Smarty. I will be using these loops for creating a selection list. We can create selection list from a custom Smarty function html_options. <select name="user"> {html_options values=$id output=$names selected="4"} </select> Instead of html_options, we can also use loops to create the … Read more
In previous article, I had written about installing and using Smarty. In this article, I will be showing how you can include header and footer in Smarty. index.php assigns contents and calls the template file index.tpl <?php require_once('classes/ConnectSmarty.class.php'); // create an object of the class included above $smarty = new ConnectSmarty; // assign content $smarty->assign('name','Mukesh … Read more
In this article, I will be introducing how to use Smarty Template engine. This is a beginner tutorial. First of all, you need to download Smarty from http://www.smarty.net/download. You can follow a quickstart guide from here as well: http://www.smarty.net/quick_install. My approach of coding is a bit different than the quickstart guide present on smarty website. … Read more