This is the path.<br>It is not a question of stupidity, but of our lack of adequate user-friendly documentation, of the "take you by the hand" variety that is so important for people just starting out. A Mercer book for
5.1, so to speak.<br><br>Well, to compensate we have nice people like Bill pointing the way on this list and... the handbooks! (Hit the handbooks button at the top of <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>).<br><br>Who would have thought that at
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/21866">http://drupal.org/node/21866</a> there is an article embedded there about Custom Blocks, which doesn't actually come out and say what you need here exactly, but ... "
Each custom block has a title, a description, and a body. The content within the body can be as long as you wish." It omits the detail about which filter to apply (full, filtered html, etc, even php), but... <br><br>
The thing is, you have to read and re-read the handbooks, in sequential search mode, until you get the hand of how it is organized. Because there is a wealth of info there. They are not so badly organized, it is just that there is an overwhelming amount of info, since Drupal is a lot like a hot-rod kit!
<br><br>saludos,<br><br>Victor Kane<br><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">A-NO-NE Music</b> <<a href="mailto:madflute@anonemusic.com">
madflute@anonemusic.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bill Fitzgerald / 2007/05/26 / 02:05 AM wrote:<br>
<br>>-- it seems that you know exactly the content you need in the block. Why<br>>not go to <a href="http://yoursite.com/?q=admin/build/block/add">http://yoursite.com/?q=admin/build/block/add</a> and handcode the<br>
>block?<br><br>D'oh!<br>I can't believe how stoopid I was. It worked as advertised. Thank you<br>so much for pointing this out. Why did I not see this. Sigh..<br><br>--<br><br>- Hiro<br><br>Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
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