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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think Panels can do this with contexts. You don’t really need a block at that point. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve heard that Contexts can do similar stuff, too, but I’ve never used it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Joel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shai Gluskin<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> support@drupal.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [support] Need Help with A Block Knowing Info About First Node in aView<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I've got a situation where I need a block to know about the contents of the node being displayed.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've got a block with custom code which starts,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>if ( arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) ) {<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> $node = node_load(arg(1));<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That works for when the node is displaying on its own page.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But my problem is that I am displaying the node using Views and not on its own page. The reason I am doing this is that that the one node that displays in the view dynamically changes depending on the $node->created time. The view works perfect for this; one URL, dynamic content.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But I need the block to have access to the node object of the one node currently displaying in the View.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What is coming to mind is to run the same query in the block that the view is running to get the $nid and do the node_load off of that. But I thought there was an easier way. Or do I have access to the View object?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your suggestions,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Shai<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>