How to get a block from template file phtml in Magento 2

A block is a modular unit of content that can be positioned anywhere on a page. Blocks are usually used to display dynamic content from widgets, videos, or text. Displaying elements in blocks makes it easier for the store admins to manage and edit anytime.

It’s usual to see content blocks as Static blocks or CMS blocks which are used as promotional banners, images, or infor texts. You can display these blocks on every page of a Magento 2 website without spending much time on configurations by calling a block in PHTML file.

Using PHTML file is one of the best ways to call a block in Magento 2. In this post, I’ll show you the way via PHP code to get a block from the template phtml file in Magento 2. There are two examples I will give you here.

Example 1 to get block in phtml

If you need to call a template block helloworld.phtml of Mageplaza_HelloWorld, please use the below code:

echo $this->getLayout()
          ->createBlock('Mageplaza\HelloWorld\Block\HelloWorld')
          ->setTemplate('Mageplaza_HelloWorld::helloworld.phtml')
          ->toHtml();

Example 2 to call block in phtml

If you need to call template block in CMS static Block or CMS Page in Magento 2, please use the below code:

block class="Mageplaza\HelloWorld\Block\HelloWorld" name="your_block_name" template="Mageplaza_HelloWorld::helloworld.phtml"

Hope this is the helpful article to get block from template phtml file. In case that you have any queries about the article or any questions in general, use the comment section below!

Conclusion

This post has guided you through how to call a block by PHTML file programmatically. In case that you have any queries about the article or any questions in general, let us know in the comment section below! Thanks for reading

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Sam Nguyen

Sam is the CEO & co-founder of Mageplaza, a company established to support Magento merchants with different powerful tools and resources. Sam Nguyen is also the CEO & founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore – aiming to support more than a million online businesses to grow and develop.

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