New Blocks Problem

chrismet5 · New Member Joined: Aug 02, 2007 Posts: 3

I am a bit of a noob when it comes to nuke. When I try to install new blocks on my ravennuke site they dont appear, I saw on another thread that this might be a problem with my install.

However I'm not sure if I'm installing them right, do I just paste the block-.php file into the /blocks/ directory?

I first noticed this when trying to get the donatometer to work, but I tried another block and had the same problem.

Is there anything I can do to fix it? Preferably that wont destroy what I've got done allready, because I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of days getting it done. My Modules work fine.

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fkelly · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:21 am

After you put the blocks into the blocks directory you have to go into administration / blocks and activate and position the block.

chrismet5 · New Member Joined: Aug 02, 2007 Posts: 3

Yeah, they don't appear on that list though.

fkelly · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:09 am

Phew. It took a little looking but here's the scoop. When you go to blocks administration from the general admin screen, you'll get a list of already installed blocks. Those are blocks that are both in the /blocks directory and in the blocks mysql table.

Then you'll see a "add a new block area". You can put title for you new block there and then click on the filename drop down. A list of all the block-xxx.php files that are in your /blocks directory will be presented. Pick whichever one you want to add and save it. You can then come back and position it where you want. The program (/admin/modules/blocks.php) just does a read on the /blocks directory for files starting with block- and populates the drop down list with them.

chrismet5 · New Member Joined: Aug 02, 2007 Posts: 3

They don't appear to be in that dropdown either.

EDIT: Sorry, I'm mistaken, I was looking at the wrong drop-down list.

Embarassed

Thanks!

Chris