title: How to call Magento block in phtml template?
body: <p>i need to display some more links in footer. i created those links in magento admin as static blocks (id = sample_links ).</p>
  
  <p>and then i added following code page.xml file</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;reference name="foot_lnk"&gt;  
  &lt;block type="cms/block" name="sample_block" before="-"&gt;
        &lt;action method="setBlockId"&gt;&lt;block_id&gt;sample_links&lt;/block_id&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
      &lt;/block&gt;
  &lt;/reference&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i called this one in footer.phtml as,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getChildHtml('foot_lnk') ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it does not display the CMS static block content. what is the issue?.</p>