How to call Magento block in phtml template?

Question

i need to display some more links in footer. i created those links in magento admin as static blocks (id = sample_links ).

and then i added following code page.xml file<

Answer 1

You can call a statick block like:

getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('your_identifier')->toHtml() ?>

And call a block like:

getLayout()->createBlock('sidebar/left')->setTemplate('bannerslider/left.phtml')->tohtml(); ?>

Visit magevn.com to see more usecase to use block in magento.