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Detect if Block is active in Concrete5

Concrete5 Blocks do not get deleted when they are "removed" because of consistency reasons in the history.

Now I have the following situation: I have a custom block with the database table called btMyCustomBlock.

It looks like this:

 |---bID---|---cID---|---someParam---|

Now, when such a block is "removed" and the Page is saved, the database will still maintain the block - which is ok.

BUT: I need a way to detect if my block is used on this page right now. I am looking for something like:

Select a random entry from btMyCustomBlock WHERE entry is used as a block on the page right now.

How can I do that? I found out that the table Blocks has the field bIsActive but it seems that this does not correlate with what I am looking for, does it?

Solution

  • I believe what you are looking for is this

    SELECT b.*
FROM btMyCustomBlock b
INNER JOIN CollectionVersionBlocks cvb ON b.bID = cvb.bID
INNER JOIN CollectionVersions cv ON cvb.cvID = cv.cvID
WHERE cv.cvIsApproved = 1

    Get all the records that are connected to the currently approved page version.