Magento Create Static Block With Setup Script

The following setup script will create a static block programatically. There are a few reasons why it’s a good idea to create static blocks this way.

You don’t have to manually add the static blocks to all of your environments i.e. local, staging, production
Any developer that pulls your code is working with the same dataset without having to retrieve a database dump
You wont get errors if you are trying to retrieve a static block that doesn’t exist.
The data is version controlled
On a multi-store site may have to create a static block for each store-view which is tedious

For example, I commonly have to add a static block for links in the footer so that the client can update them at will.

The below script loops through each of your stores and creates a static block for each. Uncomment the line $stores = array(0); in order to create a single static block used for all store views.

<?php
/**
 * This should be placed in the data/ directory for example
 * data/[module]_setup/data-upgrade-1.0.4-1.0.5.php
 */


$content = '
    <div class="row">
        <div class="columns small-12 medium-4">
            <h3>Block 1</h3>
        </div>
        <div class="columns small-12 medium-4">
            <h3>Block 2</h3>
        </div>
        <div class="columns small-12 medium-4">
            <h3>Block 3</h3>
        </div>
    </div>
';
//if you want one block for each store view, get the store collection
$stores = Mage::getModel('core/store')->getCollection()->addFieldToFilter('store_id', array('gt'=>0))->getAllIds();
//if you want one general block for all the store views, uncomment the line below
//$stores = array(0);
foreach ($stores as $store){
    $block = Mage::getModel('cms/block');
    $block->setTitle('Your title');
    $block->setIdentifier('your_identified');
    $block->setStores(array($store));
    $block->setIsActive(1);
    $block->setContent($content);
    $block->save();
}

<?php

/**

* This should be placed in the data/ directory for example

* data/[module]_setup/data-upgrade-1.0.4-1.0.5.php

$content = '

<h3>Block 1</h3>

</div>

<h3>Block 2</h3>

</div>

<h3>Block 3</h3>

</div>

//if you want one block for each store view, get the store collection

$stores = Mage::getModel('core/store')->getCollection()->addFieldToFilter('store_id', array('gt'=>0))->getAllIds();

//if you want one general block for all the store views, uncomment the line below

//$stores = array(0);

foreach ($stores as $store){

$block = Mage::getModel('cms/block');

$block->setTitle('Your title');

$block->setIdentifier('your_identified');

$block->setStores(array($store));

$block->setIsActive(1);

$block->setContent($content);

$block->save();

}

Magento Create Static Block With Setup Script