IT Answers » magento http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Sun, 26 May 2013 01:32:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Magento block and reference, problem with showing block in Magento phtml http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/magento-block-and-reference-problem-with-showing-block-in-magento-phtml/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/magento-block-and-reference-problem-with-showing-block-in-magento-phtml/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:23:15 +0000 MichalDrozd Hi,
I am stuck with following issue. I want show product_viewed block (recently viewed products – magento block) at specific position on my front page (templates/page/mylayout.phtml).
Look at code snippets of page.xml, catalog.xml and mylayout.phtml
Header and footer and other magento blocks are showing right. But problem is only with showing product_viewed block – no html code load. What I am doing wrong ?
Why 
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_viewed') ?>

doesnt return any code ?
When block hints are turned on, there is no block hint for product_viewed block (look at picture). Why ?

page.xml (snippet):

<block type="page/html_header" name="header" as="header"></block>
<block type="reports/product_viewed" name="product_viewed" as="product_viewed"  template="reports/product_viewed.phtml"/>

catalog.xml (snippet):

<reference name="product_viewed">
     <block type="reports/product_viewed" name="product_viewed" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml"/>
</reference>

browser page
source code of template

Thanks you for any help!

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