DDBlock is only displaying as a view

I followed all of the steps you mentioned above. I will check the image field again but I'm pretty sure it was set correctly. I also do have 2 nodes created.

I'm at a loss as I have done everything you outlined. Any other areas to check? (Aside from starting from scratch?)

Thanks

Sorry I have corrected permissions and uncommented he drupal_set_message lines. Nothing appears different though.

and the instance is on the homepage where you see the view.

I'm going to try a fresh install of drupal and see if this helps.

Ok...so I have done a fresh install of drupal and ddblock. Now I can see the ddblock but no images are showing. I have changed the image fields to what is displayed in the debugger...and still no luck. Here is my new template.php:

<?php
// $Id

require_once("common_methods.php");

if (get_drupal_version() == 5) {
  require_once("drupal5_methods.php");
}
else {
  require_once("drupal6_methods.php");
}

/* Common methods */

function get_drupal_version() {	
	$tok = strtok(VERSION, '.');
	//return first part of version number
	return (int)$tok[0];
}

function get_page_language($language) {
  if (get_drupal_version() >= 6) return $language->language;
  return $language;
}

function get_full_path_to_theme() {
  return base_path().path_to_theme();
}

/**
 * Allow themable wrapping of all breadcrumbs.
 */
function greens3_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
  if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
    return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode(' | ', $breadcrumb) .'</div>';
  }
}

function greens3_service_links_node_format($links) {
  return '<div class="service-links"><div class="service-label">'. t('Bookmark/Search this post with: ') .'</div>'. art_links_woker($links) .'</div>';
}

/**
 * Theme a form button.
 *
 * @ingroup themeable
 */
function greens3_button($element) {
  // Make sure not to overwrite classes.
  if (isset($element['#attributes']['class'])) {
    $element['#attributes']['class'] = 'form-'.$element['#button_type'].' '.$element['#attributes']['class'].' art-button';
  }
  else {
    $element['#attributes']['class'] = 'form-'.$element['#button_type'].' art-button';
  }
   	
  return '<span class="art-button-wrapper">'.
    '<span class="l"></span>'.
    '<span class="r"></span>'.
    '<input type="submit" '. (empty($element['#name']) ? '' : 'name="'. $element['#name']
         .'" ')  .'id="'. $element['#id'].'" value="'. check_plain($element['#value']) .'" '. drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']).'/>'.
	'</span>';
}

/*!
 * Dynamic display block preprocess functions
 * Copyright (c) 2008 - 2009 P. Blaauw All rights reserved.
 * Version 1.3 (18-MAR-2009)
 * Licenced under GPL license
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 */

 /**
 * Override or insert variables into the ddblock_cycle_block_content templates.
 *   Used to convert variables from view_fields to slider_items template variables
 *
 * @param $vars
 *   An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
 * 
 */
function greens3_preprocess_ddblock_cycle_block_content(&$vars) {
  if ($vars['output_type'] == 'view_fields') {
    $content = array();
    // Add slider_items for the template 
    // If you use the devel module uncomment the following line to see the theme variables
    // dsm($vars['settings']['view_name']);  
    // dsm($vars['content'][0]);
    // If you don't use the devel module uncomment the following line to see the theme variables
    drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['settings']['view_name'], true) . '</pre>');
    drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['content'][0], true) . '</pre>');
    if ($vars['settings']['view_name'] == 'news_items') {
      if (!empty($vars['content'])) {
        foreach ($vars['content'] as $key1 => $result) {
          // add slide_image variable 
          if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid)) {
            // get image id
            $fid = $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid;
            // get path to image
            $filepath = db_result(db_query("SELECT filepath FROM {files} WHERE fid = %d", $fid));
            //  use imagecache (imagecache, preset_name, file_path, alt, title, array of attributes)
            if (module_exists('imagecache') && is_array(imagecache_presets()) && $vars['imgcache_slide'] <> '<none>'){
              $slider_items[$key1]['slide_image'] = 
              theme('imagecache', 
                    $vars['imgcache_slide'], 
                    $filepath,
                    $result->node_title);
            }
            else {          
              $slider_items[$key1]['slide_image'] = 
                '<img src="' . base_path() . $filepath . 
                '" alt="' . $result->node_title . 
                '"/>';     
            }          
          }
          // add slide_text variable
          if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_slide_text_value)) {
            $slider_items[$key1]['slide_text'] =  $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_slide_text_value;
          }
          // add slide_title variable
          if (isset($result->node_title)) {
            $slider_items[$key1]['slide_title'] =  $result->node_title;
          }
          // add slide_read_more variable and slide_node variable
          if (isset($result->nid)) {
            $slider_items[$key1]['slide_read_more'] =  l('Read more...', 'node/' . $result->nid);
            $slider_items[$key1]['slide_node'] =  'node/' . $result->nid;
          }
        }
        $vars['slider_items'] = $slider_items;
      }
    }    
  }
}  
/**
 * Override or insert variables into the ddblock_cycle_pager_content templates.
 *   Used to convert variables from view_fields  to pager_items template variables
 *  Only used for custom pager items
 *
 * @param $vars
 *   An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
 *
 */
function greens3_preprocess_ddblock_cycle_pager_content(&$vars) {
  if (($vars['output_type'] == 'view_fields') && ($vars['pager_settings']['pager'] == 'custom-pager')){
    $content = array();
    // Add pager_items for the template 
    // If you use the devel module uncomment the following lines to see the theme variables
    // dsm($vars['pager_settings']['view_name']);     
    // dsm($vars['content'][0]);     
    // If you don't use the devel module uncomment the following lines to see the theme variables
    drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['pager_settings'], true) . '</pre>');
    drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['content'][0], true) . '</pre>');
    if ($vars['pager_settings']['view_name'] == 'news_items') {
      if (!empty($vars['content'])) {
        foreach ($vars['content'] as $key1 => $result) {
          // add pager_item_image variable
          if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid)) {
            $fid = $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid;
            $filepath = db_result(db_query("SELECT filepath FROM {files} WHERE fid = %d", $fid));
            //  use imagecache (imagecache, preset_name, file_path, alt, title, array of attributes)
            if (module_exists('imagecache') && 
                is_array(imagecache_presets()) && 
                $vars['imgcache_pager_item'] <> '<none>'){
              $pager_items[$key1]['image'] = 
                theme('imagecache', 
                      $vars['pager_settings']['imgcache_pager_item'],              
                      $filepath,
                      $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value);
            }
            else {          
              $pager_items[$key1]['image'] = 
                '<img src="' . base_path() . $filepath . 
                '" alt="' . $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value . 
                '"/>';     
            }          
          }
          // add pager_item _text variable
          if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value)) {
            $pager_items[$key1]['text'] =  $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value;
          }
        }
      }
      $vars['pager_items'] = $pager_items;
    }
  }    
}


/**
 * Image assist module support.
 * Using Artisteer styles in IE
*/
function greens3_img_assist_page($content, $attributes = NULL) {
  $title = drupal_get_title();
  $output = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">'."\n";
  $output .= '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">'."\n";
  $output .= "<head>\n";
  $output .= '<title>'. $title ."</title>\n";
  
  // Note on CSS files from Benjamin Shell:
  // Stylesheets are a problem with image assist. Image assist works great as a
  // TinyMCE plugin, so I want it to LOOK like a TinyMCE plugin. However, it's
  // not always a TinyMCE plugin, so then it should like a themed Drupal page.
  // Advanced users will be able to customize everything, even TinyMCE, so I'm
  // more concerned about everyone else. TinyMCE looks great out-of-the-box so I
  // want image assist to look great as well. My solution to this problem is as
  // follows:
  // If this image assist window was loaded from TinyMCE, then include the
  // TinyMCE popups_css file (configurable with the initialization string on the
  // page that loaded TinyMCE). Otherwise, load drupal.css and the theme's
  // styles. This still leaves out sites that allow users to use the TinyMCE
  // plugin AND the Add Image link (visibility of this link is now a setting).
  // However, on my site I turned off the text link since I use TinyMCE. I think
  // it would confuse users to have an Add Images link AND a button on the
  // TinyMCE toolbar.
  // 
  // Note that in both cases the img_assist.css file is loaded last. This
  // provides a way to make style changes to img_assist independently of how it
  // was loaded.
  $output .= drupal_get_html_head();
  $output .= drupal_get_js();
  $output .= "\n<script type=\"text/javascript\"><!-- \n";
  $output .= "  if (parent.tinyMCE && parent.tinyMCEPopup && parent.tinyMCEPopup.getParam('popups_css')) {\n";
  $output .= "    document.write('<link href=\"' + parent.tinyMCEPopup.getParam('popups_css') + '\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\">');\n";
  $output .= "  } else {\n";
  foreach (drupal_add_css() as $media => $type) {
    $paths = array_merge($type['module'], $type['theme']);
    foreach (array_keys($paths) as $path) {
      // Don't import img_assist.css twice.
      if (!strstr($path, 'img_assist.css')) {
        $output .= "  document.write('<style type=\"text/css\" media=\"{$media}\">@import \"". base_path() . $path ."\";<\/style>');\n";
      }
    }
  }
  $output .= "  }\n";
  $output .= "--></script>\n";
  // Ensure that img_assist.js is imported last.
  $path = drupal_get_path('module', 'img_assist') .'/img_assist_popup.css';
  $output .= "<style type=\"text/css\" media=\"all\">@import \"". base_path() . $path ."\";</style>\n";
  
  $output .= '<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="'.get_full_path_to_theme().'/style.ie6.css" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->'."\n";
  $output .= '<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="'.get_full_path_to_theme().'/style.ie7.css" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->'."\n";
  
  $output .= "</head>\n";
  $output .= '<body'. drupal_attributes($attributes) .">\n";
  
  $output .= theme_status_messages();
  
  $output .= "\n";
  $output .= $content;
  $output .= "\n";
  $output .= '</body>';
  $output .= '</html>';
  return $output;
}

I have left the debugger on.

Can you take a look at my site again? The block is on the homepage. Much appreciated.

All I did was reinstall views and ddblock. Must have been something funky that happened with the original install. Thanks for the support though!!! Great module!