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Hi, OK I have been able to add the autonav block to a theme, but now I want to add the search block and potentially other blocks. Can anyone advise as to whether this is possible, i've tried pulling the data from the database in what i think is the same way as the autonav block...?? Thanks

<div id="search"><?php  
 $bt_main = BlockType::getByHandle('search');
 $bt_main->controller->title = 'Search';
 $bt_main->controller->buttonText = 'Go';
 $bt_main->controller->baseSearchPath = '';
 $bt_main->controller->resultsURL = 'search-results';
 $bt_main->render(''); 
 ?> </div>


The working autonav block used in template:
<div id="navigation">
  <?php  
 $bt_main = BlockType::getByHandle('autonav');
 $bt_main->controller->displayPages = 'top';
 $bt_main->controller->orderBy = 'display_asc';
 $bt_main->controller->displaySubPages = 'none';
 $bt_main->render('templates/header_menu'); 
 ?> 
  </div>
BHWW
 
smartwebprojects replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
smartwebprojects
I guess you should have

$bt_main->render('view');

rather than just

$bt_main->render('');
BHWW replied on at Permalink Reply
BHWW
Awesome, thanks! I think i'd been staring at it too long, lol
nickratering replied on at Permalink Reply
nickratering
This is great! I've used this for the news items with the previous next block. Check it out!

<div id="next-previous-in-template">
<?php
$bt_main=BlockType::getByHandle('next_previous');
$bt_main->controller->nextLabel=t('next post');
$bt_main->controller->previousLabel=t('previous post');
$bt_main->controller->parentLabel=t('show all in list');
$bt_main->controller->showArrows=1;
$bt_main->controller->loopSequence=0;
$bt_main->controller->orderBy='display_desc';
$bt_main->render('view');
?>
</div>