How to add listing and vendor blocks by ID with PHP

[apos37]

I have made my own custom query with PHP that returns an array of listing or vendor IDs, but now I want to show them using your existing blocks. I don’t want to have to recreate them. Is there a function I can use to add a block by ID? Can’t seem to find anything in your Github Gists or documentation. Thanks in advance.

[apos37]

Spoke too soon. Figured it out on my own. For others who are curious, I have set up relationships between vendors so that one is a retailer and another is a supplier. The retailer can connect with the supplier and include their listings on their vendor profile. This is where I’m at, making a shortcode to display the supplier’s listings that are stored by ID on the retailer’s vendor post meta.

// Get the vendor's suppliers
$suppliers = $SL_VENDORS->has_supplier_listings( $vendor_post_id );

// Since we have some
if ( !empty( $suppliers ) ) {

    // Extract all supplier IDs
    $listing_ids = [];
    foreach ( $suppliers as $supplier ) {
        foreach ( $supplier as $listing_id ) {
            $listing_ids[] = $listing_id;
        }
    }

    // The query
    $query = HivePress\Models\Listing::query();

    // Filter
    $query->filter(
        [
            'id__in' => $listing_ids,
        ]
    );

    // Random
    $query->order( 'random' );

    // Fetch them
    $listings = $query->get(); 

    // Start the container
    $results = '<div class="supplier-listings hp-listings hp-block hp-grid">
        <div class="hp-row">';

            // Iter the listings
            foreach ( $listings as $listing ) {

                // Listing container
                $results .= '<div class="hp-grid__item hp-col-sm-4 hp-col-xs-12">';

                    // Render the block
                    $results .= ( new HivePress\Blocks\Template(
                        [
                            'template' => 'listing_view_block',
                            'context'  => [
                                'listing' => $listing,
                            ],
                        ]
                    ) )->render();

                // End container
                $results .= '</div>';
            }

        // End the container
        $results .= '</div>
    </div>';
    return $results;
}

For vendors, I would Render the block using 'template' => 'vendor_view_block' and 'context' => [ 'vendor' => $vendor_object ]. Hope it helps someone.