Steps to Add CMS blocks into pages in Magento

In this article, we are going to discuss about How to add the CMS blocks into the pages in Magento. Magento is a popular E-commerce CMS framework. Magento is a feature-rich, open-source, enterprise-class platform that offers merchants a high degree of flexibility and control over the user experience, catalog, content and functionality of their online store. We can add CMS blocks into Magento pages in 2 ways.

Step 1 : Using the xml layouts

<block type="cms/block" name="block_name" as="block_name" after="-">
    <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>the_block_id</block_id></action>
</block>

Step 2 : Using the phtml files

<?php
echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('the_block_id')->toHtml() ;
?>