Adding Generic CMS Page into product Tab

[ianpparker]

Good day,

I am not sure how to correctly pose this question, but I have searched for days now, so when Mr Google fails me, the community are always great!

What I am wanting to do is create a "block reference" that resides in a Product Tab.  

The reason for this is so I can se a widget and select this content to be shown on multiple products.  I am currently using the detailed description however the obvious problem is that if I need to make a change, I need to do that 100 times, and it is a little boring and time consuming.

I thought it could be possible to define a "Block reference" within a .phtml page, and then call that as below:

<action method="addTab" translate="title" module="catalog"><alias>overview</alias><title>Overview New</title><block>tag/product_list</block><template>catalog/product/custom_overview.phtml</template></action>

However I have been unsuccessful so far with all my attempts to do this.

I would love to hear other peoples ideas / solutions on how to achieve this.

Many many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ian

[iWeb GazJoy]

Hi Ian,

we have done this in the past with static block matching. You will need to create each of your static blocks and have a product attribute that ties them with the product.

So your bank of static blocks will have identifiers like so, whereproduct_name_goes_here matches the Product Name attribute:

option_help_product_name_goes_here

and you have an attribute that is a text field to match on, in this case I am using product name but you can use anything.

Your phtml template will need to have the logic to do the matching.

<?php
// Replace any spaces or slashes in the product name with underscores
$identifier = str_replace(array(' ', '/'),array('_', '_'), strtolower($_product->getName()));
// Create the static block
$layoutBlock = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('option_help_' .$identifier);
?>

You will then need to echo this out, like this:

<?php echo $layoutBlock->toHtml(); ?>

Let me know if that works for you.

Gareth.