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  Posted: Jan 15, 2005 - 09:26 PM

  I have been looking around the site, but havent seen any documentation on how to make a standalone block. Also if i was wanting to make a simple one that just had a PHP script in it, how would i go about that. Sometimes the script is just a little to complex to be posted in a form for the PHP blocks.
  
  EDIT: Im talking about a standalone block. Not one that is associated with any module.

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• MACscr
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 25, 2005 - 12:31 PM

  There is no HOW TO at all on block development? The sad thing is that I know how to make a basic module too, but never attempted to make a block.
  
  All I want to do is put PHP in the block. So basically when I would add the block, it woudl really have no config area at all. It would just be activated. As the logic would all be hardcoded into it.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 25, 2005 - 06:01 PM

  Yeah, I've been a module developer for awhile and recently had to write a block. I was disappointed that there was no doc that I could find. Furthermore, the core PN blocks in CVS are *NOT* API-compliant, which is especially troublesome because it's clear that the dev team doesn't really understand blocks either.
  
  I have written blocks for the statistics and RSSdisplay modules that I believe are pnAPI compliant. (They're available on http://www.mtrad.com.) You can use them as examples. If you put the block into the includes/blocks directory, you have to use a different function naming convention than when they're in modules. But other than that, it's pretty much the same.
  
  If you have questions, drop me an email to crsATmtradDOTcom and I'll see what I can do to help.

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• MACscr
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 07, 2005 - 10:02 AM

  is there still no documentation on this?

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  Posted: Oct 28, 2005 - 05:09 PM

  I have written a couple for the projects I am working on the first.php in the example does a pretty decent job at showing how to do it. the Example first.php is API compliant and uses Smarty templating.

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  Posted: Oct 28, 2005 - 07:57 PM

  Merxion

  I have written a couple for the projects I am working on the first.php in the example does a pretty decent job at showing how to do it. the Example first.php is API compliant and uses Smarty templating.

  
  i think module blocks run different from stand-alone

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  Posted: Oct 29, 2005 - 05:49 AM

  Oh never saw a standalone block API compliant that is hehe.
  
  If I had to do one i'd probably build a blank module with whatever user apis necessary in pnuserapi and put the block in the pnblock directory. Wouldn't you want to do this anyway to keep its code seperate from base code?

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  Posted: Nov 13, 2005 - 07:09 AM

  wow, this guy is going to get annoying quick

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  Posted: Nov 13, 2005 - 07:54 AM

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  Posted: Nov 13, 2005 - 08:00 AM

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• czardogs
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 01, 2006 - 03:29 PM

  Has anyone found any documentation as to how to make a standalone block?
  
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  Posted: Apr 01, 2006 - 03:58 PM

  I don't think there is a such thing as a pnAPI compliant standalone block is there? From what I've seen, you need to put the block in a module, even if all you are building is the block. You don't have to have a user or admin interface for it. I think the PN-Teamspeak module is like this. It's just a block, but it installs like a module.

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  Posted: Apr 01, 2006 - 04:51 PM

  hmm, what about for .8 (i know this is late in the game), but /includes/blocks/core/ for core blocks and /includes/blocks/custom or somethign like that for third party blocks. The more seperate third party anything can be, the better IMHO.

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  Posted: Apr 01, 2006 - 05:13 PM

  In .8, the core blocks are now located in /system/blocks/pnblocks Which pretty much reenforces what Jbirchett said, create a module with API functions only.
  
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