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

[Dmitri Gaskin]

What about putting block data in a $blocks variable, and then calling  
theme('region', $blocks['left']);?

That would take the same approach as theme('links',...), whose  
approach I like (I might be the only one :D).

Dmitri

On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:

> Noone *likes* having function calls there. It is just a necessity if
> you don't want to render and query and do all kinds of work that will
> never be emitted on the page. So please try to come up with an
> alternative instead of voicing an aestetic objection that is shared by
> everyone.
>
> Theme engines that don't allow function calls in the template are free
> to organize themselves as they wish and thus just pass variables like
> we do today.
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com 
> > wrote:
>> That's also the original logic behind the component module:
>>
>> http://drupal.org/project/component
>>
>> That said, -1 to putting function calls directly in the template.   
>> They're not
>> portable to other template engines other than PHPTemplate.  That's  
>> also
>> putting too much logic into a template, where it belongs in a theme/ 
>> template
>> (preprocess) function.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday 23 February 2008, David Metzler wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Larry Garfield                  AIM: LOLG42
>> larry at garfieldtech.com          ICQ: 6817012
>>
>> "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
>> exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called  
>> an idea,
>> which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
>> himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the  
>> possession
>> of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."   
>> -- Thomas
>> Jefferson
>>