Thursday, 21 August 2014
Static blocks are very useful tools in Magento. We can effectively use them in different situations. They provide us enough power on content management. However I felt it lacks with something. It can show its content only in boring text format. If we are planning to use multiple static blocks in a page, then we will definitely seek for adding css and js for static block contents. However if we are planning to do it in the most effective way, we can't achieve this functionality in one step. For this small (some time big) headache, I decided to make an end. It results in a tiny magento extension Rkt_JsCssforSb.
What it does
This extension functionality is simple. For every static block, you can see a section for put javascript and css. You need to put css and js in those text areas. Rest will do by the extension. You don't need to put script and style html tag enclosures inside text area. This job will effectively carry out by extension. Css that added for static blocks will get append to head section and scripts will go to bottom section in body part.
In deep
Static block are least considered section in magento code wise !. I am telling this because, during the development of this extension, I have found out that, there are no static block specific events available. However cms pages has lot of events available. Also model of static block is somewhat "weak" when compare with other entity models! For example, there is no event prefix available for static blocks. This made me in serious trouble and as a result, I have done a model rewrite during the development of the extension. I know its bad. But I forced to do it. Along with this, I am observing to three events in order to make the work done.
But I personally believe this extension is highly useful. Since it makes static block somewhat "dynamic". We can set css and make static block content look nice and by applying some js , we can make those contents dynamic etc.
I am waiting for your feedbacks about this extension. Currently the extension is available on GITHUB and soon it will available in Magento connect. Hope you will use it.
Useful Links
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17832914/how-do-i-extend-cms-block-on-save-event-of-magento
- http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/32324/how-to-check-whether-a-block-exist-based-on-its-type
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