Displaying my Bloc in mutiple "zone"?

Question

I am working on a Slider extension for Magento, I want to be able to display my slider in one of this positions : top_left, top_right, top_center, bottom_left/right/center ! and be able to choose this position from my Admin backend whith a DropList or somthing like. Can you help please :) ! Thanks

Answer 1

The best solution i found is to add an Observer with this event :

controller_action_layout_load_before

Then we load the layout in it :

public function addBlock(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
{
   $layout = $observer->getEvent()->getLayout()->getUpdate();
   $layout->addHandle(ThePositionYouWant);
   return $this;
}

In your Layout put he different position you want :

<position_name>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="BlockName" name="Name" before="-" template="YourBlockTemplate"/>
     </reference>
</position_name>

    <position_name2>
        <reference name="left">
            <block type="BlockName" name="Name" after="-" template="YourBlockTemplate"/>
         </reference>
    </position_name2>

And it Works. Hope this will help :) !