This may be a stupid question. Is it possible to call a custom block after the closing HTML tag in my templates? Here's what I've got so far, but the block is not included/rendered and there's nothing in the error logs.
File: app/design/frontend/default/theme/layout/local.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout>
<default>
...
<reference name="custom_block">
<block type="core/template" name="custom_block" as="custom_block" template="page/html/custom_block.phtml" />
</reference>
...
</default>
</layout>
File: app/design/frontend/default/theme/template/page/html/custom_block.phtml
<!-- boo! -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
And lastly, I call the block in the layout file(s) like so:
File: app/design/frontend/default/theme/template/page/1column.phtml
...
</div>
<?php echo $this->getAbsoluteFooter() ?>
</body>
</html>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('custom_block') ?>
Have I got the scope of getChildHtml()
wrong? I have cleared the cache manually a hundred times and re-indexed the site as much. Thanks for taking a look.
</html>
? That wouldn't even make sense.