Before Drupal 7, if you want to create a block for your Drupal site you either have to create a module or a variable to show your block and it is not fun!
But in Drupal 7, Block is part of the core, just to go ?q=admin/structure/block and create a block.
In the block body, you can enter full HTML or PHP code and this is where the flexibility come in.
With full HTML code you can enter any ads including Javascript into your block and assign it anywhere on your site and it shows.
With PHP code, you can write a small snippet of PHP code and run on your site like for example this code below will show your visitor IP.
< ?php
if (user_access('access content')) {
$spiders=array('google', 'fatlens', 'yahoo', 'altavista', 'yandex', 'baidu', 'bing', 'thefind', 'bot', 'spider', 'crawl');
$interval = REQUEST_TIME - variable_get('user_block_seconds_online', 900);
$authenticated_count = db_query("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT s.uid) FROM {sessions} s WHERE s.timestamp >= :timestamp AND s.uid > 0", array(':timestamp' => $interval))->fetchField();
$output="";
$max_users = variable_get('user_block_max_list_count', 10);
if ($authenticated_count && $max_users) {
$output.="Registered Users";
$items = db_query_range('SELECT u.uid, u.name, MAX(s.timestamp) AS max_timestamp FROM {users} u INNER JOIN {sessions} s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.timestamp >= :interval AND s.uid > 0 GROUP BY u.uid, u.name ORDER BY max_timestamp DESC', 0, $max_users, array(':interval' => $interval))->fetchAll();
$output .= theme('user_list', array('users' => $items));
}
$guest_count = db_query("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT s.hostname) FROM {sessions} s WHERE s.timestamp >= :timestamp", array(':timestamp' => $interval))->fetchField();
$sData=array(); $gData=array();
if ($guest_count && $max_users) {
$items = db_query_range('SELECT DISTINCT s.hostname, MAX(s.timestamp) AS max_timestamp FROM {sessions} s WHERE s.timestamp >= :interval ORDER BY max_timestamp DESC', 0, 10000000, array(':interval' => $interval))->fetchAll();
$i=0;
for ($i=0;$ihostname;
}
$ips=array_unique($ips);
foreach ($ips as $ip){
$host=preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z\.]/', '', gethostbyaddr($ip));
if ($host=="...") $host="Unknown Hostname";
$spider=0;
foreach ($spiders as $spider){
if (strpos($host, $spider)!==false){
$spider=1;
break;
}
}
if ($spider==1){
$sData[]=array('ip'=>$ip, 'host'=>$host);
}else{
$gData[]=array('ip'=>$ip, 'host'=>$host);
}
}
}
if (isset($gData) && count($gData)>0){
$output.="Guests";
$i=0;
foreach ($gData as $d){
$output.="".$d['host']."";
$output.="
";
$output.="
".$d['ip']."
";
$loc=unserialize(file_get_contents('http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip='.$d['ip']));
if ($loc['geoplugin_city'].$loc['geoplugin_region']!=''){
$output.="
".$loc['geoplugin_city'].", ".$loc['geoplugin_region']."
";
}
if ($loc['geoplugin_countryName']!=''){
$output.="
".$loc['geoplugin_countryName']."
";
}
$output.="
";
if ($i>$max_users){break;}
$i++;
}
}
if (isset($sData) && count($sData)>0){
$output.="Spiders";
$i=0;
foreach ($sData as $d){
$output.="".$d['host']."";
$output.="
";
$output.="
".$d['ip']."
";
$output.="
";
if ($i>$max_users){break;}
$i++;
}
}
return $output;
}
? >
It sure save me lot of time in compare to when I was using Drupal 6