https://github.com/ericduran/sharedblocks

Shared Blocks module for Drupal
https://github.com/ericduran/sharedblocks

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Shared Blocks module for Drupal

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ericduran/sharedblocks
• Owner: ericduran
• Created: 2010-09-27T19:36:09.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-09-27T20:31:30.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-15T18:44:50.922Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: PHP
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• Size: 99.6 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.txt

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README

          
The Shared Blocks Module is awesome!

If you have a main site with blocks that you want to syndicate across several

other websites, you need this module!

Features:

* Allows publishing and subscribing of Drupal blocks

* Changes to published blocks are updated on sites with subscription blocks

* Published blocks provides a JSON page at blocks/{module}/{delta}

* Block subscriptions are updated on cron with an adjustable refresh interval

JSON format:

  success: boolean

  title: string

  content: string

  last update: timestamp ?

  site root: string (could be gleaned from subscription URL)

Notes:

* Published blocks always represent the view of an anonymous user. Please be sure to check permissions.

* Relative and root-relative URLs (which start with "/") will need to be rewritten.

* It would be good to provide a JSONP alternative - perhaps by adding extra args to the URL blocks/{module}/{delta}/jsonp/{func}.

* Likewise, we could also return blocks/{module}/{delta}/html with a full rendered version of the block.

Hooks:

- hook_menu()

  - callback for configuration page

  - publish tab, subscribe tab

  - callback for individual published blocks (blocks/{module}/{delta})

- hook_cron()

  - subscribe sites ping publish site on regular basis checking for updates (recent comments)

- hook_block()

  - Create subscription blocks

  

Future enhancements:

- Don't show blocks available to publish that aren't viewable by anonymous. :)