Not long a ago, i have 2 posted about rendering Blocks and Views in PHP.

• Drupal – Render a Block in PHP Code
• Drupal – Render a View in PHP Code

We can render the Drupal 7 block by PHP in another way.

1. Find out the block which you want to render from the db table called block.

 

2. You could see there are 2 columns, one is called module and the other is called delta. These 2 data are what we need to render the block programmatically.

3. Use the following piece of code to print the block in PHP.

<?php
  $block = block_load(<module>, <delta>);
  print render(_block_get_renderable_array( _block_render_blocks(array($block))));
?>

The above method works even for block created by Views.

Done =)

Reference:

• Render a block programmatically
• [Drupal7] How Display Block Programmatically