Question

I’m trying to reference a block from an other custom module to add a child block via layout file but it does not work.

The first layout file contains

<catalog_product_view>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="core/template" name="tabcontainer" as="tabcontainer"
            template="store/tabcontainer.phtml" >
            <block type="catalog/product_list_related" name="kitparts"
                template="store/product/kitparts.phtml"/>
        </block>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

and in the second one I try to reference the tabcontainer block

<catalog_product_view>
    <reference name="tabcontainer">
        <block type="productshippinginfo/productshipping" name="productshippinginfo"
            template="productshippinginfo/productshipping.phtml" after="kitparts"/>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

but the productshippinginfo block is not displayed while it is definitely included in the layout (using Alan Storm’s layoutviewer plugin). If I reference content it is displayed.

What is wrong? Isn’t it possible to add a child to a custom block from a custom extension?

Thanks for your help!

(I’m using Magento 1.6.1.0)

[edit]
in tabcontainer.phtml I’m calling <?php echo $this->getChildHtml(); ?>

Answer 1

First of all: Thank you Vinai!

Adding a dependency to control the loading order of my plugins it works!

in File: app/etc/modules/Company_ContentModule.xml

<Company_ContentModule>
  <active>true</active>
  <codePool>local</codePool>
  <depends>
    <Company_ContainerModule />
  </depends>
</Company_ContentModule>

So the content module is loaded after the container module.