Customized layout with PHP

PHP - using Blocks

If you are a developer and are used to code with entity collection, addAttributeToFilter, and addAttributeToSelect methods, this section is made for you.

You can easily integrate a list whether by using Blackbird\ContentManager\Block\ContentList

or extends Blackbird\ContentManager\Block\Content\Widget\ContentList block

or by using calling directly a Content collection Blackbird\ContentManager\Model\ResourceModel\Content\CollectionFactory.

  $_objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance(); //instance of\Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager
  $contentCollection = $_objectManager->create('Blackbird\ContentManager\Model\ResourceModel\Content\CollectionFactory');
  $collection = $contentCollection->create() 
  ->addContentTypeFilter('news') 
  ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1) 
  ->addAttributeToSelect('title') 
  ->addAttributeToSelect('url_key') 
  ->addAttributeToSelect('image');

PHP - Directly into a .phtml theme file

You can call on content directly into a theme .phtml file using Blackbird\ContentManager\Model\ResourceModel\Content\CollectionFactory. This example uses news as the *identifier* and also uses ->setPageSize() & ->setCurPage() to limit the content.

  $_objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance(); //instance of\Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager
  $contentCollection = $_objectManager->create('Blackbird\ContentManager\Model\ResourceModel\Content\CollectionFactory'); $collection = $contentCollection->create()
  ->addContentTypeFilter('news')
  ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1)
  ->addAttributeToSelect('title')
  ->addAttributeToSelect('url_key')
  ->addAttributeToSelect('image');
  ->setPageSize(2)
  ->setCurPage(1)
  foreach ($collection as $_content){
  print_r($_content->getData()).'
';}