Question

I added a new CMS page, and editted the Layout XML to show this:

<reference name="head">
<block type="cms/block" name="myblock" template="myfolder/mytemplate.phtml"></block>
</reference>

So I put the file “mytemplate.phtml” in this folder:

/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/myfolder

And I put this test script in the file:

<?php
echo '<script>alert("hello");</script>';
?>

However, when I load the CMS page nothing happens, so it means the ‘mytemplate.phtml’ file is not loading.

How can I make this work?

Answer 1

If you’re going to use template (phtml), your block should extend from Mage_Core_Block_Template.

So your block type should be core/template, not cms/block.