cu_faculty_publication_bundle.module

<?php
/**
 * Implements hook_block_info().
 */
function cu_faculty_publication_bundle_block_info() {
  $blocks['publications_by_faculty'] = array(
    'info' => t('Publications by Faculty Member'),
  );
  return $blocks;
}

/**
 * Implements hook_block_view().
 */
function cu_faculty_publication_bundle_block_view($delta = '') {
  if ($delta =='publications_by_faculty') {
    // Load current node.
    $node = menu_get_object();
    if ($node && $node->type == 'person') {
      // Get id from person node.
      $fis_id = !empty($node->field_fis_id) ? $node->field_fis_id[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'] : NULL;

      // Both fis id AND publications display type must be set to build block.
      if ($fis_id){
        // Initialize block
        $block = array();
        $block['subject'] = 'Publications';

        // Get number of publications we want to display in block from
        // person node.
        $query_limit = 11;
        $display_limit = 10;

        // Initialize curl.
        $es_data = curl_init();

        // Build query.
        curl_setopt($es_data, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://experts.colorado.edu/es/webex-rc1/_search?q=authors.uri:experts.colorado.edu/display/fisid_'.$fis_id.'&size='.$query_limit);
        curl_setopt($es_data, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
        curl_setopt($es_data, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

        // Send request to elastic search api.
        $json = curl_exec($es_data);
        curl_close($es_data);

        // Turn response into json format.
        $publications = json_decode($json);

        // Check to see if there is more than the display limit.
        if (count($publications->hits->hits) == $query_limit) {
          $view_more = TRUE;
        }
        else {
          $view_more = FALSE;
        }
        // Truncate array to display limit.
        $listings = array_slice($publications->hits->hits, 0, $display_limit);
        // Loop through json response and display publication in template.
        foreach ($listings as $listing) {
          $contents = (array) $listing->_source;
          $block['content']['publications'][]['#markup'] = theme('faculty_publication_name', $contents);
        }
        // Add view more link.
        if ($view_more) {
          $block['content']['more']['#markup'] = l('View all', 'https://experts.colorado.edu/display/fisid_' . $fis_id);
        }

      }

    }
    return $block;
  }

}

/**
 * Implements hook_theme().
 */
function cu_faculty_publication_bundle_theme(&$existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
  $registry = array();
  $template_dir = drupal_get_path('module', 'cu_faculty_publication_bundle') . '/templates';
  $registry['faculty_publication_author'] = array(
    'template' => 'faculty-publication-author',
    'path' => $template_dir,
    'render element' => 'elements',
  );
  $registry['faculty_publication_name'] = array(
    'template' => 'faculty-publication-name',
    'path' => $template_dir,
    'render element' => 'elements',
  );

  return $registry;
}