Can I use a Shared Region in a template Block

Rene Banus · Mar 12th 2019

Does anyone know if there is a way to use data from a 'Shared Region' inside a block?

See code example below

I want to be able to let the user (editor) determine the position of this data table on the webpage.

Or is there another way to make this happen?

I can't seem to figure this out, there may be a simple way I am not seeing right now. Hope someone can help.

Thx, René

Code

<perch:blocks>
<perch:block type="activitylist" label="List of Activities" icon="photo">
<perch:content (... from a shared region... ) >
</perch:block>
<perch:block type="someotherBlockType" label="Some other type of data" icon="contacts">
<div class="pdf">
<perch:content id="PdfCard_Oms" type="text" label="Tekst Pdf Link">
</div>
</perch:block>
</perch:blocks>

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drewm · Mar 12th 2019

You can fetch the content back into a variable and then pass that variable into the second template.

Rene Banus · Mar 12th 2019

Thanks Drew!!

This works like a charm. Because it took me some time to figure out all the details, I have listed the solution here.

thx, René

PHP

:part one: mainpage.php
<?php
$meditatie_agenda =
perch_content_custom('AgendaMeditatie', array(
'template'=>'agendaMeditationList.html',
'sort'=>'startdatum',
'sortorder'=>'ASC',
'skip-template'=>true,
'return-html'=>true,
));
PerchSystem::set_var('myTable', $meditatie_agenda['html']);
// print_r($meditatie_agenda);
// print_r(PerchSystem::get_var(myTable));
?>
<?php perch_content_custom('paragraph_with_table');?>

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HTML

<perch:blocks scope-parent>
<perch:block type="notrelevant_txt_block" label="mijnText">
<perch:content id="mydummytxt" type="textarea" size="m" label="Tekst"/>
</perch:block>
<perch:block type="mylisttable" label="Tabel with data">
<table>
<thead>
<th>Meditatie cursus</th>
<th class="tabledate">Eerste les</th>
<th class="tabledate hide_for_small_screen">Laatste les</th>
<th class="num">Aantal</th>
<th class="num hide_for_small_screen">Bijdrage</th>
</thead>
<perch:content id="parent.myTable" html>
</table>
</perch:block>
</perch:blocks>

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drewm Mar 12th 2019