Making Custom Blocks

[novanilla]

I find this rather difficult. Mainly because I'm clueless... But I keep plugging.

What are the requirements for making a gallery block? I had a custom weather block that worked great (Accuweather), and accessed a user's zip code for weather. I also had a calendar block from the phpBB Calendar 0.1.0 that still worked great, even though the mod was abandoned. I can't get either of these to work in custom blocks for 2.0 beta yet.

Seems (for example) that I could make the edits I used to make in portal.php for the "next events on calendar" block that I make in the index.php file. Then I should be able to include the line <!-- INCLUDE calendar_week_on_index.html --> in that portal block, just as I did before. But it doesn't parse that kind of html code.

Any assistance on this kind of custom block would be greatly appreciated.

[Marc]

The goal of Board3 Portal 2.0.0 was that there is no need to edit important files like portal.php anymore.

If you need to run PHP code, you can add that into your module file (which you need to create). An example of a module file is portal_default.php.

You can find more infos on module files here:
knowledge/kb_categorie.php?id=23

[novanilla]

Thank you!!! This answers so much. I apologize for not seeing these topics sooner!