Re: [Slashcode-general] portald and static blocks

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

At 04:55 PM 5/14/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>Could some one explain to me how portald blocks work?  I'm not sure
>about this ...

portald are generally blocks that pickup content
from outside sources, or are 'live' blocks in
the sense the content is generated.

whereas static is just that - a block that has
stuff that you've typed in. an example is the
quicklinks block.

>Also, I have specfic questions about static blocks. I'm not seeming to
>be able to update the poll, and I don't know understand where the data
>that feel fancyboxes comes from. Any feedback would be appeciated.

the blocks are cached. so anything you changed either
needs to timeout because of user traffic, or you
need to stop and start apache to force your changes
to showup.