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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Blaine[/u][p]Actually Euan,

You will want to look at some of the changes we made in GL 1.3.10. As a developer, you can now call COM_siteHeader and COM_siteFooter to show a custom list of blocks on the left (via siteHeader) or right (via siteFooter).

The functions now check if an array is being passed in. This array can specify a custom function used to format the blocks. We broke out the code to retrieve and format the blocks and there is now a COM_formatBlock function.

What's needed in a custom function is some basic logic to retrieve the needed blocks and call COM_formatBlock. We have added a working example of this in lib-cutom call custom_showBlocks.

The following is an example of how this can be used as is. 
A basic index.php that will show the a custom list of blocks on the left and rght.
[code]
<?php

require_once("lib-common.php");

$myblocks_left = array ('section_block','myblock1','poll_block');
$myblocks_right = array ('whosonline_block','events_block','poll_block');

/* Show Custom list of Blocks */
echo COM_siteHeader( array('COM_showCustomBlocks',$myblocks_left) ) ;
echo  COM_siteFooter( true, array('COM_showCustomBlocks',$myblocks_right));

[/code]

I think this is a very powerfull new feature in GL 1.3.10. You can use the custom_showBlocks function or write your own if you need additional logic or control.

[/p][/QUOTE]

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