Re: [development] order in which regions are rendered
Thanks for the replies. You're right, the regions do render as declared inside the .info file, but knowing that still doesn't solve the issue. For example, some regions are added through preprocess (theme_preprocess_node) which are rendered on node pages before the rest of the regions. Anything inside the node.tpl.php is also rendered before all other regions. So you still can't guarantee that one region is rendered before another. What I need is to generate javascript inside blocks according to their placement on the page. What I tried was placing a static variable inside hook_block on $op = view and incrementing that, but as I showed, this didn't solve the problem because you can't be sure what regions will be rendered in what order. The only way I see it is to somehow modify the fully rendered page HTML before it's sent to the browser using regular expressions. Is there a way to do that? And if doable, how costly in performance would it be? -- Best Regards, Ashraf Amayreh CEO | O-Minds Cell. 962 78 8099997 Tel. 962 6 5655150 Fax. 962 6 5675150 o-minds.com web development | web design user experience | branding design
Well there is a lot you can do to do that. You'll have to override theme_blocks though most likely. The block it self is built in the block_list function that is called from theme_blocks. Unfortunately the hook_block does not pass the region to the block when rendering it, but as I said if you override theme_blocks you will be able to grab the blocks after they are compiled but before they are rendered and add whatever you need to add after checking $block->module and $block->delta based on $block->region. Check it out and you'll get a better idea. http://api.lullabot.com/theme_blocks ----- ***NEW CELL PHONE # Please Update(See Below)*** Adam A. Gregory Drupal Developer & Consultant Web: AdamAGregory.com Twitter: twitter.com/adamgregory Phone: 910.808.1717 Cell: 919.306.6138 On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ashraf Amayreh <mistknight@gmail.com>wrote:
Thanks for the replies. You're right, the regions do render as declared inside the .info file, but knowing that still doesn't solve the issue.
For example, some regions are added through preprocess (theme_preprocess_node) which are rendered on node pages before the rest of the regions. Anything inside the node.tpl.php is also rendered before all other regions. So you still can't guarantee that one region is rendered before another. What I need is to generate javascript inside blocks according to their placement on the page. What I tried was placing a static variable inside hook_block on $op = view and incrementing that, but as I showed, this didn't solve the problem because you can't be sure what regions will be rendered in what order.
The only way I see it is to somehow modify the fully rendered page HTML before it's sent to the browser using regular expressions. Is there a way to do that? And if doable, how costly in performance would it be?
-- Best Regards, Ashraf Amayreh CEO | O-Minds Cell. 962 78 8099997 Tel. 962 6 5655150 Fax. 962 6 5675150
o-minds.com web development | web design user experience | branding design
That actually seems like a rather screwy thing to be doing in the first place. :-) Perhaps you can explain what you're trying to accomplish and we could figure out a better approach? IME, if you care about the order that blocks are rendered in, or in which region they appear, more often than not you have a design flaw somewhere in your logic. --Larry Garfield On 3/22/10 9:32 AM, Ashraf Amayreh wrote:
Thanks for the replies. You're right, the regions do render as declared inside the .info file, but knowing that still doesn't solve the issue.
For example, some regions are added through preprocess (theme_preprocess_node) which are rendered on node pages before the rest of the regions. Anything inside the node.tpl.php is also rendered before all other regions. So you still can't guarantee that one region is rendered before another. What I need is to generate javascript inside blocks according to their placement on the page. What I tried was placing a static variable inside hook_block on $op = view and incrementing that, but as I showed, this didn't solve the problem because you can't be sure what regions will be rendered in what order.
The only way I see it is to somehow modify the fully rendered page HTML before it's sent to the browser using regular expressions. Is there a way to do that? And if doable, how costly in performance would it be?
-- Best Regards, Ashraf Amayreh CEO | O-Minds Cell. 962 78 8099997 Tel. 962 6 5655150 Fax. 962 6 5675150
o-minds.com <http://o-minds.com> web development | web design user experience | branding design
more often than not you have a design flaw somewhere in your logic.
I would agree b/c the fact of the matter is you don't necessarily know what regions will even be available to you based on the theme. ----- ***NEW CELL PHONE # Please Update(See Below)*** Adam A. Gregory Drupal Developer & Consultant Web: AdamAGregory.com Twitter: twitter.com/adamgregory Phone: 910.808.1717 Cell: 919.306.6138 On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, larry@garfieldtech.com < larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
That actually seems like a rather screwy thing to be doing in the first place. :-) Perhaps you can explain what you're trying to accomplish and we could figure out a better approach? IME, if you care about the order that blocks are rendered in, or in which region they appear, more often than not you have a design flaw somewhere in your logic.
--Larry Garfield
On 3/22/10 9:32 AM, Ashraf Amayreh wrote:
Thanks for the replies. You're right, the regions do render as declared inside the .info file, but knowing that still doesn't solve the issue.
For example, some regions are added through preprocess (theme_preprocess_node) which are rendered on node pages before the rest of the regions. Anything inside the node.tpl.php is also rendered before all other regions. So you still can't guarantee that one region is rendered before another. What I need is to generate javascript inside blocks according to their placement on the page. What I tried was placing a static variable inside hook_block on $op = view and incrementing that, but as I showed, this didn't solve the problem because you can't be sure what regions will be rendered in what order.
The only way I see it is to somehow modify the fully rendered page HTML before it's sent to the browser using regular expressions. Is there a way to do that? And if doable, how costly in performance would it be?
-- Best Regards, Ashraf Amayreh CEO | O-Minds Cell. 962 78 8099997 Tel. 962 6 5655150 Fax. 962 6 5675150
o-minds.com <http://o-minds.com>
web development | web design user experience | branding design
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