Get eZ Flow zones of an object

Monday 25 July 2011 5:48:17 am

Hey there,

for a navigation on our site I need to fetch a specific zone and the included blocks from some objects in our Exponential installation.

Can you tell me how I can fetch the blocks in this zone?

I tried to inspect the whole object using attribute(show), but I only found this output by using
{$object.children[0].data_map.page.content.zones|attribute(show)}

Well, I got the zone ID ...
Is there a fetch to get the zone and the blocks behind this ID?

Regards from Germany,
Michael Fürmann

Tuesday 26 July 2011 12:08:12 am

Thank you for your suggestion, but it doesn't work.

I'm not in a module content but in the file pagelayout.tpl.
I did a fetch on a content object which holds my navigation structure.
From some of its children I need to fetch the eZFlow zones and blocks to include them into navigation.

But if I inspect the object using |attribute I can only see the values 'id' and 'zone_identifier' for the zones on the page.
There is no array 'blocks' that could be iterated using foreach.

Tuesday 26 July 2011 2:13:56 am

What else should I look at?

I did a fetch to get the root nodes for the navigation:

 $root_items = fetch('content', 'list',
                           hash('parent_node_id', 2,
                                   'sort_by', array( 'priority', false() ),
                                'attribute_filter', array("and", array("node_id", "in", $root_nodes))
                           ) 
                    )

There is an attribute 'page' that is type 'Layout' and holds the zones for eZFlow (right?)
So I iterate the root items for my navigation.
Each of the root items has some children, each of them has a eZFlow layout in attribute 'page'.
I can see values for id and zone_identifier as shown above, but no blocks array.

 {foreach $root_items as $object}
        <li class="navnode">
             <a href={$object.data_map.url_alias|ezurl}  class="navlink">{$object.data_map.title.data_text|wash(xhtml)}</a>
             {if $object.children|count|gt(0)}
            <div  class="navnode">
                {include  uri='design:controls/nav_lvl1.tpl' elements=$item.children}
                 <div class="navnode subnode">
                      <div  class="c9" style="background: white;">
                     {foreach $object.children[0].data_map.page.content.zones as $zone}
                       {if $zone.zone_identifier|eq('guide')}
                         <!-- GUIDE
                        {$zone|attribute(show)}
                         {foreach $zone.blocks as $block}
                          {block_view_gui block=$block}
                        {/foreach}
                         -->
                        {break}
                       {/if}
                    {/foreach}
                       </div>
                </div>
                <div  class="nav_end"></div>
            </div>
             {/if}
        </li>
        {/foreach}