Creating a custom block without using the Drupal block hooks

There is one options in the drupal admin section...
1. Go to the path sitename/?q=admin/settings/block
2. The is one menu called 'add new block' , click on that.
3. It is very user frinendly , check it .

Have a great day...

Are you looking to make a block based on a condition? or are you looking to do something like loop through a bunch of records and output a new block for a new record.

Both of which are possible using any hook that is called outside of a .install file, as its run every time the hook is called, rather than being a one off. (as far as I know).

There shouldn't be any reason you cant dynamically build new blocks and configurations for those blocks inside the hooks, so long as it returns an array in the right format.

I hope you are not familiar with drupal ...

In the above mentioned method , you can insert your own code like php/html etc.... Other wise you might use hook_block...

Try this modules too , i hope what you are searching it is here ...
http://drupal.org/project/nodeblock
http://drupal.org/project/nodeasblock
You can create a block as node ...

Otherwise you can create the block by using your own function with db_query and variables by using the table 'block_custom', But you might take care on creating this by your own code , it may effect the drupal normal functionality ...

Check this code

  $delta = db_insert('block_custom')
    ->fields(array(
      'body' => $form_state['values']['body']['value'],
      'info' => $form_state['values']['info'],
      'format' => $form_state['values']['body']['format'],
    ))
    ->execute();
  // Store block delta to allow other modules to work with new block.
  $form_state['values']['delta'] = $delta;

  $query = db_insert('block')->fields(array('visibility', 'pages', 'custom', 'title', 'module', 'theme', 'status', 'weight', 'delta', 'cache'));
  foreach (list_themes() as $key => $theme) {
    if ($theme->status) {
      $query->values(array(
        'visibility' => (int) $form_state['values']['visibility'],
        'pages' => trim($form_state['values']['pages']),
        'custom' => (int) $form_state['values']['custom'],
        'title' => $form_state['values']['title'],
        'module' => $form_state['values']['module'],
        'theme' => $theme->name,
        'status' => 0,
        'weight' => 0,
        'delta' => $delta,
        'cache' => DRUPAL_NO_CACHE,
      ));
    }
  }
  $query->execute();

  $query = db_insert('block_role')->fields(array('rid', 'module', 'delta'));
  foreach (array_filter($form_state['values']['roles']) as $rid) {
    $query->values(array(
      'rid' => $rid,
      'module' => $form_state['values']['module'],
      'delta' => $delta,
    ));
  }
  $query->execute();

  // Store regions per theme for this block
  foreach ($form_state['values']['regions'] as $theme => $region) {
    db_merge('block')
      ->key(array('theme' => $theme, 'delta' => $delta, 'module' => $form_state['values']['module']))
      ->fields(array(
        'region' => ($region == BLOCK_REGION_NONE ? '' : $region),
        'pages' => trim($form_state['values']['pages']),
        'status' => (int) ($region != BLOCK_REGION_NONE),
      ))
      ->execute();
  }

  drupal_set_message(t('The block has been created.'));

Hope you can understand....

Hey Pratip,

I know this question is 2 years old but the answer is quite simple.

You just programmatically submit the block add form, passing to it the data you want.

/**
 * Programmatically creates a DB level block.
 *
 * Using the settings below a block is created programmatically.
 * To find out which other settings are available, use hook_form_alter
 * on block_add_block_form to check the $form_state['input'] values and
 * insert them into the $form_state['values'] array with your custom value.
 */
function mycustomfunction_create_block($title = '', $description = '') {

  form_load_include($form_state, 'inc', 'block', 'block.admin');

  $form_state = array();
  $form_state['values'] = array(
    'title' => $title,
    'info' => $description,
    'visibility' => '0',
    'pages' => NULL,
    'custom' => '0',
    // The block isn't visible initially
    'regions' => array(
        'seven' => '-1',
        'stark' => '-1',
      ),
    'body' => array(
        'value' => '<p>Don\'t bite your nails!.</p>',
        'format' => 'filtered_html',
      ),
  );
  // Submit the form programmatically.
  drupal_form_submit('block_add_block_form', $form_state);

}