Struggling with capital letters and xlm namespace while creating a block for a new module

Question

I am trying to create a block containing a method callable on my template

I believe i doing something wrong with capital letters or declaration conventions in my xml files. I did not manage to declare properly my block in the layout file.

can anyone help ?

local/Maticode/WebLog/etc/config.xml :

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <config>
 <modules>
 <Maticode_WebLog>
 <version>
 0.1.0
 </version>
 </Maticode_WebLog>
 </modules>
 <frontend>
 <routers> 
 <weblog>
 <use>standard</use>
 <args>
 <module>Maticode_WebLog</module>
 <frontName>weblog</frontName>
 </args>
 </weblog>
 </routers>
 <layout>
 <updates>
 <weblog>
 <file>webloglayout.xml</file>
 </weblog>
 </updates>
 </layout>
 </frontend> 
 <global>
 <blocks>
 <weblog>
 <class>Maticode_WebLog_Block</class>
 </weblog>
 </blocks>
 </global>
 </config>

local/Maticode/WebLog/Block/monblock.php:

 <?php
 class Maticode_WebLog_Block_Monblock extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
 {
 public function methodblock()
 {
 return 'informations de mon block !!';
 }
 }

design/frontend/base/default/layout/webloglayout.xml:

 <layout version="0.1.0">
 <weblog_index_index>
 <reference name="root">
 <!--http://localhost/magento/weblog/ outputs : 'here'-->
 <!-- <block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml" template="weblog.phtml" />-->
 <!--this does not display the template -->
 <block type="weblog/monblock" name="afficher_monbloc" template="weblog.phtml" />
 </reference>
 </weblog_index_index>
 </layout> 

design/frontend/base/default/template/weblog.phtml:

 <?php
 echo 'here'; 
 echo $this->methodblock();
 ?>

Answer 1

You need to register Block in config.xml file as follows (inside config tag)

<global>
 <blocks>
 <weblog>
 <class>Maticode_WebLog_Block</class>
 </weblog>
 </blocks>
</global>

And "local/Maticode/WebLog/Block/monblock.php" this file should be "local/Maticode/WebLog/Block/Monblock.php"

and layout should be

<weblog_index_index>
 <reference name="content">
 <block type="weblog/monblock" name="afficher_monbloc" template="weblog.phtml" />
 </reference>
</weblog_index_index>

• Matoeil: monblock.php works also!name="content" instead of name="root" solved the problem. i don't know why and how does this reference attributes work...