Place watcher link in blocks (Automatic Panels support)

I'd love to use this. I love watcher, but prefer the location of the links in the comment notify module (under the comment box). In advanced forum the watcher ajax widget looks goofy, and I would much rather have it at the bottom of the page below the comment box. Does this patch get rid of the link in the node body?

I'm having difficulty patching this with Tortoise SVN. Never had trouble with this kind of thing before. It doesn't seem to be recognized as a patch file. Any suggestions?

Nevermind, I figured it out. My file path did not include the 6.1...

Next release of the D6 branch will place the link in the links array as it should. I see no reason to implement support for links in blocks, if you really need this feature you can use PHP code in a custom block to get the same result.

I think this is a great feature/patch. There are many cases where you don't want this in the links area and would want it in a block.

If you disable it from showing on a content type, will php code in a custom block still work?

Does anyone have the php code written?

Thanks,

CarbonPig

Bump - Can anyone help on the php to put the watcher link in a block?

What I did was to add into my page.tpl.php theme file:

<?php if ($title): ?>
  <h1 class="title"><?php print $title; ?></h1>
  <?php global $watcherlink; print $watcherlink; ?><br />
<?php endif; ?>

Note the third line...

$watcherlink is set by this:

<?php
function _watcher_node_watch_link(&$node, $a3, $a4) {

  ...

  //EDIT: Note the commented out code to see what I've chnaged
  global $watcherlink;
  $watcherlink = theme('watcher_node_toggle_watching_link', $user->uid, $node->nid, $dest, $watching, $tstrings);
  //Add element to node
  /*$node->content['watcher'] = array(
    '#value' => theme('watcher_node_toggle_watching_link', $user->uid, $node->nid, $dest, $watching, $tstrings),
    '#weight' => 30,
  );*/
}
?>

I also add this to my theme's css file:

.watcher_node {
  float: right;
}

EDIT: Okay, I really hate ie... but the above CSS messes up in ie, nevertheless, without it the code still works although it may not be the best way of doing things (in fact, I'm pretty sure it's not)

Also, you could of course shove global $watcherlink; print $watcherlink; into a block and you'd have the effect that you're looking for (in my undrupalesque way of doing things).

The reason I haven't committed bengtan's patch is because I haven't seen enough of a demand for this feature. I've always intended Watcher to be clean and lightweight, why the module will be refactored for D7 as job queue and other exciting new features which Watcher implements itself make it into core.

The ideal solution is actually to implement it as a separate module since far from all users seem to need it. Bengtan, if you have the time to package your code above as a module and post it here I'll make sure to include it with Watcher.

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All of my site content is in panels, and I would like to try a lighter weight solution such as Watcher.

I downloaded Watcherblock from #11 in sites/all/modules and extracted it, like any other module, but it does not show up to be enabled. Also extracted directly into the Watcher folder and no block is created.

The custom block code at the end of #8 looks simple enough, but when I applied it the block does not appear. I did not make any changes other than trying to create a custom block so perhaps I missed something.

Any tips on getting Watcher into a block or as part of a panel would be appreciated. Thank you.

Check this out, works. Very easy and quick.

http://drupal.org/node/861602

Being able to add the watcher link as a block will also allow integrating the watcher link with panels, panels pages, mini panels, etc automatically. For sites that have overridden node forms via panels, the Watcher module can currently sadly not be used.

Any way we can incorporate the changes in that D6 Watcherblock module (#6) or the patch from #1 into D7?

For those looking for a panels workaround, you can use the following patch: #1599588: Option to place Watcher Link in node-links, not node-body.