Comments on: Add New Reference in Magento

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:53:33 +0000

“Go to appropriate layout XML file and add this block to appropriate place.”

First of all what is the “appropriate” file? Is this the local.xml?

And why is it added there, seems a bit double to me, I already created a block in my page.xml, why should I add another block reference in another file…?

By: Tsvetan Stoychev

Tsvetan Stoychev — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:46:34 +0000

@Mike feel free to create local.xml in app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/layout/

Take a look here: http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/using-local-xml-for-overriding-or-updating-xml-structure/

Cheers!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:26:18 +0000

Sorry but where is the appropriate xml file in step 3? There is no: app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/layout/local.xml

By: melanie

melanie — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:26:08 +0000

The php in the template where you want to output the block needs to be:
echo $this->getChildHtml(‘newreference’)
instead of
getChildHtml(‘newreference’)
which throws an error

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:51:24 +0000

If I wanted to add a static block via a widget to a custom reference block, how might I go about doing that?

By: Steve Berrill

Steve Berrill — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:02:34 +0000

This is the best tutorial on for adding structural blocks for Magento

Big Thumbs up!

By: ivan

ivan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:11:01 +0000

Very helpful thanks! Didn’t know I had to update the page.xml file in order to put in a new reference… You saved me quite a bit of time, thanks!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:15:36 +0000

app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/layout/local.xml

By: fif

fif — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:17:28 +0000

tutorial was all kosher until step 3. where’s the appropriate layout XML file? ive only really worked on page.xml but why have they made this so complex lol

By: Ricardo Martins

Ricardo Martins — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:54:13 +0000

Its almost exactly what I need. But I dont know how can I create a custom method to call inside phtml like $this->customMethod();

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:14:36 +0000

thanks a lot for sharing .. i also got it finally. No issues with 1.6 as earlier stated by me .

By: guy

guy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:01:07 +0000

thankyou .. finally, FINALLY ! i understand reference / blocks / layout / xml / templates .. suddenly i see it , and i thankyou

By: Damu

Damu — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:21:18 +0000

How can i add new block inside content?

i tried to add new ref block inside the content ref but it shows on the top of the page not where i want.

any help would be appreciated.

By: eduardo

eduardo — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:53:35 +0000

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When ever we are stack in something we finish always in a post you have made.

I understand so many things today with your post.

thanks a lot…

By: Mayank Batra

Mayank Batra — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:26:12 +0000

HI, just a question, how can i take the menu bar out of the header and put it in another block. I dont want it to be set in the catalog.xml. Just doesn’t make sense even though it works

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:27:33 +0000

Very helpful thanks! Didn’t know I had to update the page.xml file in order to put in a new reference… You saved me quite a bit of time, thanks!

By: Finn

Finn — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:32:34 +0000

You, sir, just saved my night.

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:30:16 +0000

I tried this for 1.6 … seems there is problem there.

By: Kaushal

Kaushal — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:32:31 +0000

Who ever wrote this article, Just awesome. I really appreciate. It helped me a lot. I hadn’t any idea how to do this but your article helped me.

Thanks again

By: Dandy

Dandy — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:11:38 +0000

This helped me to get a fix on my problem regarding the cart page, where “left” block is removed in base layout.

BTW very good tutorial
Keep up the good work.