Block directive

Question

I'm wondering how I can include a .phtml file inside my cms block. I came across Magento directives which say to use the following:

{{block type="core/template" name="poop6" template="Magento_theme::test.phtml"}}

I imagine this would operate like my layouts xml where I do:

<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" template="Magento_theme::test.phtml" />

I've found some very simple articles on the block directive, but none explicitly say where to store the file. I surmise that the "template" attribute works the same as the xml. In this case the test.phtml file is...

app/design/frontend/<theme_namespace>/<theme>/Magento_Theme/templates/test.phtml

Given that the xml <block> example above works, does anyone know why my block directive is not working? Is there more involved for this to work?

Sidenote, none of the articles I found say the Magento version, mine is 2.1.2. Also, the content where my directive is remains empty on the front end, so I believe Magento is at least attempting to interpret it and failing silently (nothing in debug logs).

Answer 1

The answer was to add the class attribute. No example I found online included this so hopefully this helps someone else out.

Here is basic example. When you copy the directive text into the content HTML editor like so, the class attribute is required. Here it is using the default:

{{block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" template="Magento_Theme::test.phtml"}}

Which will pull the html from

app/design/frontend/<theme_namespace>/<theme>/Magento_Theme/templates/test.phtml

This works on both cms page content and inside cms block content. It should also work in emails but I haven't tested that or anything else.

Custom Module:

With a custom module including a block seems slightly different:

{{block class="Namespace\ModuleName\Block\BlockName" template="Namespace_ModuleName::test.phtml"}}

Pulls the template from:

app/code/Namespace/ModuleName/view/frontend/templates/test.phtml