Using node variables in another block? I'm trying to create a block which would include informations on the displayed node like author picture, name, and points (using Userpoints module), the creation date, and some other infos contained in created fields for certain types of nodes.

The thing is that I want to display this block in my sidebar-second (my theme is based on bartik, except that sidebar-second is included in the &lt;div id="content"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;).

But I don't manage to use variables available in files like node.tpl.php. For instance, when I try to display the author picture in the block, I write &lt;?php print $user_picture; ?&gt; but nothing appears...

Here's what I created on photoshop and I'd like to translate into Drupal (if it can help, and yes it's in French ^^) :

Thks !

EDIT : I'm using D7.

EDIT by nyoz : 
Ok, so it seems like Multiblock is a good beginning. README.txt says the following :


  DEVELOPING MULTIBLOCK-ENABLED BLOCKS:
  Multiblock should successfully clone
  any regular block created with the
  block API. However, if you clone a
  regular block that implements a
  hook_block_save or
  hook_block_configure hook, the custom
  block settings of one block instance
  will overwrite the settings of
  another. To get around this, you can
  make a block "multiblock enabled." To
  do this, you should add a 'mb_enabled'
  key with a value of true in
  hook_block_info to each multiblock
  enabled block you are creating. Next,
  add an optional $edit argument to your
  hook_block_view and
  hook_block_configure functions. Once
  you do this, the instances you create
  will get the block instance ID passed
  in the $edit variable for the view,
  configure, and save $ops. This will
  let you save and load different data
  to different instances based on this
  instance ID. It is passed in with the
  'multiblock_delta' key with the
  following format:
  $edit['multiblock_delta'] = array(
            '#type' => 'value',
            '#value' => $block_id
        );
  
  Example implementation of
  hook_block_info: function
  hook_block_info() {
  $blocks['powered-by'] = array(
      'info' => t('Powered by Drupal'),
      'weight' => '10',
      'cache' => DRUPAL_NO_CACHE,
      'mb_enabled' => TRUE,   );   return $blocks; }


... So, I created a custom module containing :

function hook_block_info() {
  $blocks['content'] = array(
    'cache' =&gt; DRUPAL_NO_CACHE,
    'mb_enabled' =&gt; TRUE,
  );
  return $blocks;
}


I've also tried $blocks['main'] $page['main'] $page['content'] -with return $page-. BUT NONE OF IT WORKED (the block is still not multiblock enabled when I look in the instances list).

DO YOU HAVE ANY CLUE PLEASE ? Thks!
Try MultiBlock module.


  MultiBlock module solves this problem by allowing you to create
  multiple Block Instances of already existing blocks. Please read the
  README for more information.