Magento1.9 - add block to product page

Question

Seems a standard use case but I didn't find a working solution, so I post it here.

In base/default/layout/catalog.xml I see:

<catalog_product_view translate="label">
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="catalog/product_view" name="product.info" template="catalog/product/view.phtml">
            ....
        </block>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

I need to add a block within the product.info block, so in my local.xml I tried:

<catalog_product_view>
    <reference name="product.info">
        <block type="core/product_view" name="sticazzi" as="sticazzi" template="catalog/product/view/sticazzi.phtml"/>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

and in my view.phtml I put:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('sticazzi') ?>

This does not work, what's wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

Your code is half correct change type="core/product_view" to type="catalog/product_view"

<reference name="product.info">
    <block type="catalog/product_view" name="sticazzi" as="sticazzi" template="catalog/product/view/sticazzi.phtml"/>
</reference>

If you use <reference name="content"> this will load the block without getChildHTml

Answer 2

If you want to display it in view.phtml then you need to use of that reference block like below

<reference name="product.info">
    <block type="catalog/product_view" name="sticazzi" as="sticazzi" template="catalog/product/view/sticazzi.phtml"/>
</reference>

Now you can use it in view.phtml

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('sticazzi') ?>