How to concretely display any kind of content within a drupal module

Question

this will be my first question on the site, I hope I'll be clear!

So I'm working on adapting a regular php/html/js website to a drupal site. There are some specific things a can't do with the available modules, so a need to create some. I've been wandering a lot on the web, watch and read some tutorials but I dont get exactly how to display simple html/js/php with a block module for instance.

For example, I want to display this in a block module :

`<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-min.js"></script> 
<div class="myDiv"></div> 
<script> 
$(".maparea").append('<p class='myText'>Hello there!</p>'); 
</script>`

On the other hand I have my block_view function:

`function my_module_block_view($delta = '') {
    $block = array();
    $block['subject'] = 'my Module title';
    $block['content'] = 'some content';
    return $block;
}`

If i replace that 'some content' with my raw code, well first I don't think it is the best way, a overall it doesn't work so well. Besides, I would like to use the drupal API to insert js (drupal_add_js), but how?

`block['content'] .= drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', 'my_module').'/myScript.js');`

Finally, I found some information about theme system, and templates. So it seems I have to implement my_module_template.tpl.php, and implement hook_theme in my_module.module.

It's pretty blurry, so I really need some help to understand the basics.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can call drupal_add_js() and drupal_add_css() in a hook_preprocess_block__module() or hook_preprocess_block__module__delta() function (replacing 'hook', 'module' and 'delta' with specific values) that you define in your module alongside your hook_block_view() function, or in your theme's 'template.php' file.