Sorry I am new to Magento and please bear with me if I am not using the proper terms. So I got an extension and it can be integrated anywhere on my CMS or any pages with the following codes:

{{block type="dailydeal/list_sidedeals" slim="true" name="dailydeal_sidedeals_block" template="dailydeal/list/featured_deal.phtml" }}

But for some reason I need to have this widget block written inside the relative phtml file instead of the backend so I found this earlier post:Magento include phtml file within another phtml file

So came up with the following for my phtml file:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('dailydeal/list_sidedeals')->setTemplate('dailydeal/list/featured_deal.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

It works only half way. Notice there is some additional attributes(sorry if I did not name this correctly) in my first widget block such as slim="true" and name="dailydeal_sidedeals_block". Are they something I need to add into my relative xml layout file? How does it work?

Sorry I am new to Magento and please bear with me if I am not using the proper terms. So I got an extension and it can be integrated anywhere on my CMS or any pages with the following codes:

{{block type="dailydeal/list_sidedeals" slim="true" name="dailydeal_sidedeals_block" template="dailydeal/list/featured_deal.phtml" }}

But for some reason I need to have this widget block written inside the relative phtml file instead of the backend so I found this earlier post:Magento include phtml file within another phtml file

So came up with the following for my phtml file:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('dailydeal/list_sidedeals')->setTemplate('dailydeal/list/featured_deal.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

It works only half way. Notice there is some additional attributes(sorry if I did not name this correctly) in my first widget block such as slim="true" and name="dailydeal_sidedeals_block". Are they something I need to add into my relative xml layout file? How does it work?