[development] Making blocks from some setting in Drupal 7?

[David Metzler]

Yep, I used something similar to this used to be possible in 4.7 and  
I used it to create a region and put it in into a panel using Panels  
so that I could still use block subscription and fole filtering logic  
etc within a panel.

For some reason it quit working in 4.7 most likely because I was  
causing some system internal that shouldn't have been done.

Love to see this supported.
On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Gábor Hojtsy wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
>> Gábor Hojtsy wrote:
>>> What do you think?
>>
>>  My one concern here is that because the block system is push, not  
>> pull,
>>  all blocks in all regions are always generated, regardless of  
>> whether
>>  the page needs them. That means we run the risk of degrading  
>> performance
>>  by generating a whole bunch of material that we have no intention of
>>  displaying, unless we have some way for the theme to signal which
>>  regions it wishes to generate on any given template. And that's a  
>> tough
>>  thing to do in the current system.
>>
>>  This is one of the reasons I like the panels approach, but that's  
>> still
>>  pretty far from being able to fully emulate the block system.
>
> Completely understood. I always disliked that PHPTemplate builds all
> block regions regardless of needs. I used to use lots of conditionals
> around block region bulilding in my pure PHP themes (before migrating
> over to PHPTemplate not long ago, due to its other advantages). So
> after all, a possible explosion of blocks / regions would require some
> (more) benchmarking and thinking about block performance. (Given that
> I am working primarily on better support for WYSIWYG right now, this
> is not my top priority unfortunately).
>
> Gabor