Comments on: Using PHP code on a CMS page (custom Block/module)

By: Björn

Björn — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:43:10 +0000

Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. I had quite some trouble getting the custom params. After a while I came up with the following solution:

public function getAttribute()
{
return $this->_getData(’my_param1′);
}

protected function _toHtml()
{
…
$var = $this->getAttribute();
…
}

One very important thing is to add the block into the cms content area and not to the layout updates!

By: Name

Name — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:03:41 +0000

Forget that, I found it. Was having a few problems due to some cut’n paste with wrong quotation marks.

If someone else like me, it’s simply in :
/app/design/frontend/your_interface/default/template/your_folder/your_file.phtml

By: Éric

Éric — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:53:19 +0000

Where do we put the phtml file in Tom’s solution ? It’s interesting!

By: Oleksii

Oleksii — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:21:43 +0000

{{block type=”mycompany_custom/test” …}} my_param1=”value 1″ another_param=”value 2″}}
How i understand, type=”mycompany_custom/test” initiate call to class MyCompany_Custom_Block_Test, but i don’t understand HOW called exactly _toHtml() function??
Sorry about my bad english)

By: Oleksii

Oleksii — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:21:18 +0000

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:30:39 +0000

Tom,

Thank you. Thank you Thank you. I love the simple solutions. Worked perfectly. Been beating my head on this for a couple of hours now.

By: rizwan

rizwan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:46:59 +0000

thanks but there is another problem that how can i show my products images in a customize way in category page ……

By: Ahsan

Ahsan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:20:41 +0000

nice article!
@Tom Wao! will b great if it works …
trying to implement Tom’s way …

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:45:59 +0000

If you don’t want to create a module, the most simplest way is create an phtml file, and in your CMS page, call block {{block type=”core/template” param1=”value1″ param2=”value2″ template=”your_folder/your_file.phtml”}}
In your_file.phtml, you can do whatever you want

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:49:26 +0000

Hello.
I have a small PHP and JS code that checks and sets some coockies as soon as a new visitor comes to our website. These coockies determine which website to direct the visitor to
http://www.domain.com
or
http://www.domain.com/international
and than it will remember to always direct him to the same ‘domain’

So based on this tutorial I thought I need to do this as a module and place the block code on the app/design/………/layout/page.xml

but, ofcourse since I’m not sure of what I’m doing I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in C:\AppServ\www\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Block\Abstract.php on line 503

Got ideas?
Here is the code: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewreply/155785/