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Magento – add something in the header section

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If you need to add something in the header section of all your pages, you can go on your template and add it to the files 1column.phtml, 2columns-left.phtml, 2columns-right.phtml… You can, but you shouldn’t, it’s not a good practice.

Let’s see the content of one of this file

<head>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('head') ?>
</head>

You can see the section will be filled with all “head” child block, so let’s create one.

On your layout file (design/frontend/adin/default/layout/adin_page.xml), add the declaration of your new block

<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="head" before="-">
            <block type="adin_page/headerstuff" name="headerstuff" as="headerstuff" template="page/html/headerstuff.phtml" />
        </reference>
   </default>
</layout>

Create the block class in app/code/local/Adin/Page/Block/Headerstuff.php

class Adin_Page_Block_Headerstuff extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
    public function _construct()
    {
    }
}

And create you template file app/design/frontend/adin/default/template/page/html/headerstuff.phtml

<!-- header my stuff to put in the header -->

Magento load template from controller

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To load html content of a template inside a controller, for example for ajax response, you can do :

$block = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('adin_admin/adminhtml_scheduletcrender')->setTemplate('admin/scheduletcrender.phtml');
$block->assign(array('ateliers' => $ateliers));
$html = $block->toHtml();
$response = array('html' => $html);
     
//send response as json
$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/json');
$this->getResponse()->setBody(Mage::helper('core')->jsonEncode($response));