How to use?

[VIE-Flamingo]

How to render blocks in form widget?

1. I've tried to add the these in yaml but I only see a repeater form field with a prompt, when I clicked to add item, there is nothing, just a blank menu, even when I left only type: blocks, it ran well without any exceptions, I don't know I did the correct way or not.

 buttons:
        label: Buttons
        span: full
        type: blocks
        allow:
            - button

2. After I failed with the first try, I try to render it directly in PHP like this:

<?php \Winter\Blocks\Classes\Block::render('title', [
    'content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
    'alignment_x' => 'left',
    'size' => 'h1',
]); ?>

and I got this error, it belongs to getDefaultConfig() of /plugins/winter/blocks/classes/Block.php

Can some one please tell me what I should do to use Block? Or maybe a demo for how to set all things up and what the result will be if I set up like that?

Thank you!

[bennothommo]

@khutachan might need a bit more info here.

• Where are you trying to use the blocks type? Is this in a page or a layout?
• If you change the button under allow to pages instead, does this work? It appears our default blocks provided by this plugin use the tag pages.
• Have you created your own custom blocks in your theme or any plugins?

[VIE-Flamingo]

Thank you for your response. Since I'm not entirely sure how to use this feature, I'll explain my purpose, and maybe you can point out what I'm missing.

I want to use blocks in my theme. I have several ideas on how to configure block types, but I'm unsure where to begin, so I've tried a few different approaches:

• I added the script below the {% snowboard all %} in the layout. I'm wondering if I can render a block without using the Winter.Page plugin? Specifically, I want to render blocks directly into the theme page, similar to how components are added to a page. Currently, I'm working without the Winter.Page plugin, but I also tried using it (I added the Twig variable as per the documentation). However, I didn’t see any block repeater form fields.

• I tried to render the block type that I registered in my plugin (I created a .block file, copied the title block example, and registered it in Plugin.php). This failed, so I reverted to using the registered buttons block, but that also failed.

Here’s what I did:

1. How I registered a new block:

   

   

   

2. How I tried to use it in my theme:

   {{ renderBlock('title', {
       'content': 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
       'alignment_x': 'left',
       'size': 'h1',
   }) }}
   

3. Error encountered:
   An exception was thrown because $config was null, causing the array_key_exists() function to throw an exception. After investigating, I found that $config is null because there are no registered blocks. I checked BlockManager::instance()->getConfigs() and it returned an empty array.

[VIE-Flamingo]

@bennothommo I think I have found the problem, everything of this plugin is running well, I can't render the block because I have booted my theme in Plugin.php boot() before block is booted into theme (I think so), so do you have a solution for booting an active theme within block and my code?

Here is the function that I call in boot()

 public function bootThemeLanguageKey()
    {
        $activeTheme = \Cms\Classes\Theme::getActiveTheme();
        $path = $activeTheme->getPath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'lang';
        $nameSpace = 'themes.' . $activeTheme->getId();
        $this->loadTranslationsFrom($path, $nameSpace);
    }

[LukeTowers]

@khutachan submit that as a separate question / issue please.