Magento Update CMS Pages and Blocks Programmatically

magento-1.8

I need to update the store view of all my CMS Pages and Static Blocks programmatically, but I have been unable to find any solution for the same. Is there any option available through code, or should I do the same using MySQL.

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Create the file data/[module]_setup/data-upgrade-1.0.4-1.0.5.php with the following content:

Edit: changed file name

content = 'BLOCK CONTENT HERE';
//if you want one block for each store view, get the store collection
$stores = Mage::getModel('core/store')->getCollection()->addFieldToFilter('store_id', array('gt'=>0))->getAllIds();
//if you want one general block for all the store viwes, uncomment the line below
//$stores = array(0);
foreach ($stores as $store){
    $block = Mage::getModel('cms/block');
    $block->setTitle('Block title here');
    $block->setIdentifier('block_identifier_here');
    $block->setStores(array($store));
    $block->setIsActive(1);
    $block->setContent($content);
    $block->save();
}

After this just change the version in config.xml to 1.0.5 clear the cache and refresh any page.

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Magento – Magento: How to add two or more static Blocks on category page

You can add any number of static blocks in any page in anywhere as you desire.

Since you need to add two static blocks.. create two static blocks through admin.(CMS -> Static Blocks). Let the identifiers used for two static blocks be mystaticblock_1 and mystaticblock_2. Then you can use following code directly in your page (phtml file) in order to display your static block

  <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('mystaticblock_1')->toHtml() ?> 
  <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('mystaticblock_2')->toHtml() ?>

You can also add static blocks through your layout file. An example is shown below

<handler_correspond_to_desired_page>
<reference name="content">
    <block type="cms/block" name="my_staticblock_1">
        <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>mystaticblock_1</block_id></action>
    </block> 
    <block type="cms/block" name="my_staticblock_2">
        <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>mystaticblock_2</block_id></action>
    </block> 
</reference>
</handler_correspond_to_desired_page>

Then go to the template file where you need to display the static block and add the following code in the appropriate location

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('my_staticblock_1') ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('my_staticblock_2') ?>

There is lot of tutorials regarding this topic. Please make a ruff idea about static blocks and their usages. Good luck

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