By clicking in the Blocks icon in your site's admin section you'll be able to add, edit, move and delete available as well as new blocks. In this section you will see a table that lists all available blocks and provides the needed tools for you to customize them as you please.

Title Position Weight Type Status Visible to Language Functions
Latest Content Center Block Center Up Center Block  1    FILE Inactive All Visitors All [ Edit | Activate | Delete | Show ]
Forums Center Block Center Down Center Block  1    FILE Inactive All Visitors All [ Edit | Activate | Delete | Show ]
Main Menu Left Block Left  1  Block DOWN FILE Active All Visitors All [ Edit | Deactivate | Delete | Show ]
Other Options Left Block Left  2  Block UPBlock DOWN HTML Active All Visitors All [ Edit | Deactivate | Delete | Show ]
Administration Left Block Left  3  Block UPBlock DOWN SYSTEM Active Administrators Only All [ Edit | Deactivate | Delete | Show ]
Whois Online Left Block Left  4  Block UP FILE Active All Visitors All [ Edit | Deactivate | Delete | Show ]
Search Box Left Block Left  6  Block DOWN FILE Inactive All Visitors All [ Edit | Activate | Delete | Show ]

The arrow images in the Weight column allow you to move each block up or down, the number to the left of the arrow shows the order in which they will be displayed, in this example you'll notice 3 blocks show a 1 value but all 3 are positioned in different places so there is no conflict, if on the other hand you had more than one block in the same position (left for example) you'd have a weight conflict which can be fixed by clicking on:

[ Fix Block's Weight Conflicts ]

The Functions column gives you several options, with these you can Activate or Deactivate each block, you could also Delete unwanted blocks from the list, some blocks will also allow you to get a preview of how they will look by clicking on Show, the Edit function has more options:

Block: Forums (Block File)

Title:
Filename:   (Select a custom Block to be included. All other fields will be ignored)
Position:
Language:
Activate? Yes   No
Who can View This?


In here you can give your block a custom title, select the file from which it gets its code (these are to be placed in the blocks folder), assign the display position (available options in Nuke 6.x are left, right, center up and center down), select the language for which they will be displayed (if you select English for example, people using any other language as their default will not see this block, if you select all, everyone will see it depending on the value you assign to the last setting), Activate? toggles block being displayed on or off and the last setting decides which users will be able to view this block, you can select everyone, registered users only, admins only or anonymous users only

In the main blocks admin section you'll also be able to add new blocks from files, RSS news feeds or using your own html code:.


Add a New Block

Title:
RSS/RDF file URL:    [ Setup ]
(Select Custom and write the URL or just select a Site from the list to grab news headlines)
Filename:   (Select a custom Block to be included. All other fields will be ignored)
Content:
If you fill the URL the content you write will not be displayed!
Position:
Language:
Activate? Yes   No
Refresh Time:  (Only for Headlines)
Who can View This?

There are several ways you can use to add new blocks, let's list them separately:

1-Using pre-created php files uploaded to the blocks folder (these must be titled correctly or they won't be listed, format is block-Somename.php). To add these select them from the Filename dropdown list, you can give them a custom title by entering it in the title window, else the title will be assigned by the file itself, now all you have to do is select the position where you want the block to be displayed in, the language, Activate it and select who can view it, when done click on the Create Block button.

2-Displaying news feeds from other PHP-Nuke sites, you can either select one of the sites already included in the custom dropdown list or enter the url to the RSS file to be used (e.g. http://nukecops.com/backend.php), now select the position, language, activate it, select a Refresh Time from the dropdown list (this decides how often the block tries to grab News feeds from the remote site), last select who can view the block and click on create block.

3-Using your own html code, enter a title for your block, enter your html code into the content window, select position, language, activate it, select who can view it then click create block (only html code can be used with this method).