[development] Block blocking

[Bob Hutchinson]

On Monday 18 July 2011, jeff at ayendesigns.com wrote:
> Here's an interesting one. If I have a special purpose page, and only want
> certain blocks to appear on that page, I can, of course, go to the blocks
> UI and change every other block to not appear on that page, either by
> naming it (where the list is pages NOT to appear on) or listing all the
> others (pages TO appear on).
> 
> I find the need to do this from a module, AND not knowing what the other
> blocks are. This module will be used on several sites that the client has.
> When this page is requested, the blocks that the module defines will be
> displayed, but ANY OTHER BLOCK that would, by default, appear on the page
> needs to be prevented from doing so. How would I do this completely from
> code?
> 
> I'm assuming that I'm looking for a structure that contains all the blocks
> that will be passed to the page much like form fields in $form, so that I
> can just loop and mark them as hidden.


You could try manipulating the blocks table to suit your needs....


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Bob Hutchinson
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