Template Path Not Generating Properly

Hi @steve-from-breathe4u,
Thanks for bringing this up.

Sorry to hear about the template path. Could you please help with a question about this?

Is it:

1. Not displaying the notice with the template path:
https://cldup.com/gLNZdqLF9m.png

2. Not using the template for a block when one is added? For example, if the template is at <your-theme>/blocks/block-your-example-block.php, is it not rendering that template?

3. Or both?

Thanks, Steve!

Thanks, @steve-from-breathe4u! Let me look at this more and get back to you.

Hi @steve-from-breathe4u,
Hm, I’m not sure what could cause this.

Would you be able to place 2 lines of code in the block-lab/php/post-types/class-block-post.php, and let me know what the result is? Otherwise, setting an Xdebug breakpoint there would be great if you could.

1. Above this code:

if ( ! $template ) {
	add_meta_box(
		'block_template',
		__( 'Template', 'block-lab' ),
		array( $this, 'render_template_meta_box' ),
		$this->slug,
		'normal',
		'high'
	);
}

…could you please add this:

var_dump( $template );
wp_die();

…so all of the code should look like:

var_dump( $template );
wp_die();
if ( ! $template ) {
	add_meta_box(
		'block_template',
		__( 'Template', 'block-lab' ),
		array( $this, 'render_template_meta_box' ),
		$this->slug,
		'normal',
		'high'
	);
}

2. Then, could you please click ‘Update’ in the block:
https://cldup.com/atxpbcYYxu.png

3. And if you’re comfortable with this, could you post in this support topic what the result is? There should be debugging output. If there happens to be sensitive information, feel free to not post that 🙂

Thanks, Steve!

Hi @steve-from-breathe4u,
Thanks, that’s interesting. It looks like it found a template for the block.

I’m not sure why it’s not displaying the template, like it does here:
https://cldup.com/17fOEkkTdS.png

Is that string that it printed in your comment above a valid path to a file?

For example, in that var_dump() statement above, if you do:

var_dump( file_exists( $template ) )

…does it print true?

Thanks for your patience, Steve!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Ryan Kienstra.

Hi @steve-from-breathe4u,
Sorry for asking another question, but does the notice that references blocks/block.php look like:

1. https://cldup.com/H6CnlyirYP.png

…or:

2. https://cldup.com/ne_V6WF13C.png

Thanks, Steve!

This probably won’t fix it, but if you’re up for it, could you add this:

clearstatcache();

at this line?

So all of the code would look like:

clearstatcache();
$locations = block_lab()->get_template_locations( $post->post_name, 'block' );
$template  = block_lab()->locate_template( $locations, '', true );

Maybe the file_exists() calls are cached, even if there’s no caching plugin. But I’m not sure if that’ll help.