With my local.xml
, I am already able to add CSS and JS files. Now I want to add an .phtml
file to the rwd/default/layout/page.xml
file, but it won't work.
In the page.xml
file, there is a block with the name 'header'. I have made a reference to it in my own local.xml
file like this:
<reference name="header">
<block type="page/html_textblock" name="textblock" template="page/html/textblock.phtml"/>
</reference>
The block inside the reference points to the textblock.phtml file, which only contains the sentence:
hey there
How do I make this sentence show on the page.xml
, without altering the file?
Best Answer
Well, there's two problems here in my opinion.
First, referencing a block won't necessarily display it.
It depends on the template of the block you're referencing.
In your case
header.phtml
does not automatically renders all its child block via the following code:Indeed, this template renders the block explicitely by passing the block name as an argument to the code above.
Thus if you want to display your block you will have to modify the
header.phtml
and add the following code to it:On top of that I don't think there's any
page/html_textblock
block type out of the box in Magento.If you want to display the content of a template you can do the following:
If you just want to display some hardcoded text you can do the following: