How can I create a custom block snippet (or download an available module) that would display a selected amount of information about a node in Drupal (6)? (i.e. author, creation date and published status)
I would later make this node available to admin user and only in certain content types, as a mean of seeing node information in-situ while browsing the web only as admin (this part I know how to achieve).
Thank you
I would use the Views & Context modules.
You can use a block display in Views to output the desired fields. Add an argument, then select the option to get the argument from the url.
Context module allows you to (among other things) set access rules based on roles.
I use both of these modules in all of my Drupal installs and find them quite helpful.
You can create a custom block (admin/build/block/add)
Make sure PHP Filter module is enabled already
For your block body select input filter as PHP Code
Add these lines in the body to load node information
<?php
if(arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))){
$node = node_load(arg(1));
$user = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
print "Author: " . l($user->name, 'user/' . $node->uid);
print "Creation date: " . date('m/d/y h:i:s', $node->created);
print "Publish Status: " . ($node->status) ? "Published" : "Unpublished";
}
?>
