Drupal : Render a block programmatically

gistfile1.php

Drupal 6:

<?php

$block = module_invoke(‘MODULE_NAME’, ‘block’, ‘view’, MODULE_DELTA);

print $block[‘content’];

?>

Drupal 7:

this will print with title

<?php

    $block = block_load(‘locale’, ‘language’);

    $output = drupal_render(_block_get_renderable_array(_block_render_blocks(array($block))));

    print $output;

?>

this will print without title

<?php

    $block2 = module_invoke(‘locale’, ‘block_view’, ‘language’);

    print render($block2[‘content’]);

?>

Ref:

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!module.inc/function/module_invoke/7