Question

I’m trying to display a static block in Magento as a popup window, but can’t seem to get the code to work.

I’ve found code in various places on the internet that seems to be fairly close to what I want but I can’t get any results. I’ve used the basic code to return the “top links” to my site so I know that the basics work.

I’ve created a delpopup.php script in my Magento root folder and put in this code:

<?php
require_once('app/Mage.php');
umask(0);

$layout = Mage::app()
    ->getLayout();

$layout
    ->getUpdate()
    ->addHandle('default')
    ->load();

$layout
    ->generateXml()
    ->generateBlocks();

echo '<p>before</p>';

echo $layout
    ->createBlock('cms/block')
    ->setBlockId('delivery-info')
    ->toHtml();

echo '<p>after</p>';
?>

Unfortunately the code doesn’t display the static block. That part of the output is blank.

The idea is that I can place a link in a regular page in Magento and have my delivery into pop up. Like this:

<a title="" onclick="popWin('http://www.mysite.com.au/delpopup.php', 'deliveryinfo', 'width=300,height=300,left=0,top=0,location=no,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;" href="#">Delivery Info</a>

Basically I want to be able to display a static block in a popup window that uses my Magento site’s theme. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

As I thought, the problems lies on incorrect Block Id.
Now that the cms is able to be shown.

So now the question is: how to get the theme work?

Not really sure what do you mean by theme, if what you mean is css that was included in <default> tag, you can use:

Mage::getDesign()->setTheme('your theme');

echo $layout->getBlock('head')->toHtml();

After the xml has been finished generated, it means put that code after:

$layout
    ->generateXml()
    ->generateBlocks();