Developer Blocks

Developer Blocks allows a developer to:

• render a block programmatically
• use theblock theme wrappers (the block divs)
• use a renderable array for theming the block
• pass arguments to the block theme

Developer Blocks is perfect when:

• your module defines blocks with hook_block_info() and hook_block_view()
• hook_block_view() returns a renderable array that uses the '#theme' key
• hook_theme() uses a template and variables

With Developer Blocks, you can do this:

<?php echo devblocks_render('MODULE', 'BLOCK_DELTA', array(
  'arg1' => 'val1',
  'arg2' => 'val2',
  'arg3' => 'val3'
)) ?>

For the arguments to be passed to your theme/template, you must define the allowed variables in hook_theme().