Return a rendered or renderable view of a block.

Parameters

$delta: Which block to render. This is a unique identifier for the block within the module, defined in hook_block_info().

Return value

Either an empty array so the block will not be shown or an array containing the following elements:

• subject: The default localized title of the block. If the block does not have a default title, this should be set to NULL.
• content: The content of the block's body. This may be a renderable array (preferable) or a string containing rendered HTML content. If the content is empty the block will not be shown.

For a detailed usage example, see block_example.module.

See also

hook_block_info()

hook_block_view_alter()

hook_block_view_MODULE_DELTA_alter()

Related topics

18 functions implement hook_block_view()

Note: this list is generated by pattern matching, so it may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.

aggregator_block_view in modules/aggregator/aggregator.module

Implements hook_block_view().

block_block_view in modules/block/block.module

Implements hook_block_view().

block_test_block_view in modules/block/tests/block_test.module

Implements hook_block_view().

blog_block_view in modules/blog/blog.module

Implements hook_block_view().

book_block_view in modules/book/book.module

Implements hook_block_view().

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1 invocation of hook_block_view()

_block_render_blocks in modules/block/block.module

Render the content and subject for a set of blocks.

File

modules/block/block.api.php, line 217

Code

function hook_block_view($delta = '') {
    // This example is adapted from node.module.
    $block = array();
    switch ($delta) {
        case 'syndicate':
            $block['subject'] = t('Syndicate');
            $block['content'] = array(
                '#theme' => 'feed_icon',
                '#url' => 'rss.xml',
                '#title' => t('Syndicate'),
            );
            break;
        case 'recent':
            if (user_access('access content')) {
                $block['subject'] = t('Recent content');
                if ($nodes = node_get_recent(variable_get('node_recent_block_count', 10))) {
                    $block['content'] = array(
                        '#theme' => 'node_recent_block',
                        '#nodes' => $nodes,
                    );
                }
                else {
                    $block['content'] = t('No content available.');
                }
            }
            break;
    }
    return $block;
}

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