I was looking through some with a magento when I have had the necessity to bring a block before another. The problem is that in the xml I have not found anything that was useful, as in the template.
Besides as the order of the blocks it can be managed when magento have a “standard” block and personalized blocks?
You can use the ‘before’ and ‘after’ attribute in the block tag to position the blocks.
1. before="-" positions the block before all other blocks
2. after="-" positions the block after all other block
3. before="some_block" positions this block before another block with name="some_block"
4. after="some_block" position this block after another block with name="some_block"
For example <block name="this_block" before="that_block"/>