ah found a work around:

the reason i needed the global block is because i needed a global block for each tier of the navigation.

so each drop down catagory would have its top lvl decription ediable all in on place.

so to make it automated i used the id of the pages to update there handle

as its a global block i can just append the id of the page to its handle and get it back on another page:


This is on the child page:
<?php
if ($c->cID > 1) {
$nh = Loader::helper('navigation');
$arrTrail = array_reverse($nh->getTrailToCollection($c));
$objHomePage = $arrTrail[0]; // Home page object;

// If we're on a top-level page then our $arrTrail array will only have the home page object
// so we test to see if its Page object exists
$objTopPage = is_object($arrTrail[2]) && $arrTrail[2] instanceof Page && !$arrTrail[2]->error ? $arrTrail[2] : $c;

// If we have a valid top page Page object we retrieve
$title = $objTopPage->getCollectionName();
$url = $nh->getLinkToCollection($objTopPage);
$pID = $objTopPage->getCollectionID();
// print parent
echo '<br><br>This is my second parents name and link: <li><a class="current" href="' . $url . '"' . '>' . $title . '</a>' . '</li>';
echo '<br>This is my second parents page id: '. $pID .'';
}

?>

<?php $a = new GlobalArea ('handle'. $pID .''); $a->display($c); ?>



this is the parent page getting back the global block from its child
<?php $a = new GlobalArea ('handle'. $c->getCollectionID() .''); $a->display($c); ?>


just though i would post it here so you didnt think i still needed help.

but thanks any way i will be using your package on other parts of the site! wooooop

Hi Chris,
Glad you found a solution. I've actually run into some problems myself when trying to pull in blocks that were pasted from the scrapbook, as well as stacks (which are somewhat related to global areas). One of these days I'll try to update the addon to address these issues (not sure when exactly that will be though).

And I'm not sure if the situation you describe fits exactly, but my colleague wrote a blog post a few months back about how to have different global areas in different sections of the site:http://concrete5tricks.com/blog/sectionwide-areas/...

Best,
Jordan