creating a block

Question

I created my first block in drupal. It basically creates a node create link for the places content type. But someone it doesn't work.

Can someone help me with this.

function custom_site_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {  
$blocks = array();
if ($op == "list") {
    // Generate listing of blocks from this module, for the admin/block page

$blocks['create_place'] = array(
    'info' => t('Create a place'),
    'cache' => BLOCK_CACHE_GLOBAL,
);
}
else {

    $form = array();
    $form['#action'] = url('node/add/place');
    $form['create'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => t('Create a place'),
    );

}
 return $blocks;
} 

Answer 1

function custom_site_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {  
  $blocks = array();

  switch ($op) {

    case 'list':

      $blocks['create_place']['info'] = t('Create a place');
      $blocks['create_place']['cache'] = BLOCK_CACHE_GLOBAL;

      return $blocks;

    case 'view':

      switch ($delta) {

        case 'create_place':

          $blocks['subject'] = t('My First Block');
          $blocks['content'] = l(t('Create a place'),'node/add/place');

          return $blocks;
      }
  }
}

Answer 2

You should be using the menu system to do this. Go to 'admin/structure/menu' and add a menu and a menu item with the link above. This will automatically create a block.