Friday, July 19, 2013

Drupal 6 Views embeding and passing filters

  • Load a view:
    $view views_get_view('view_name');?>
  • Initalize it and add arguments. Fiddle with options as needed:
    $view->set_display('default');$view->set_arguments(array('first''second'));$view->is_cacheable FALSE;$view->display['default']->handler->options['items_per_page'] = 3;$view->display['default']->handler->options['title'] = $title;$view->display['default']->handler->options['display_options']['use_pager'] =FALSE;?>
  • Or add a filter. Works for fields, sorts, and arguments as well.
    $display_id 'default';$view->set_display($display_id);$id $view->add_item($display_id'filter''og_uid''is_admin');$item $view->get_item($display_id'filter'$id);$item['value'] = array(01);$view->set_item($display_id'filter'$name$item);$view->is_cacheable FALSE;?>
  • Get an array of the view result objects:
    $view->execute();
    foreach (
    $view->result as $result) {
      foreach (
    $view->field as $id => $field) {
          if (!empty(
    $view->field[$id]['handler'])) {
            
    $view->field[$id]['handler']->pre_render($view->result);
            
    // Do something with this unrendered result object
          
    }
        }
    }
    ?>
  • Another way to get array of results:
    $view->render();
    foreach (
    $view->result as $result) {
      
    // Do something with this rendered result object}?>
  • Use a custom display plugin
    $display_id $view->add_display('my plugin');$result $view->render($display_id);?>
  • Another method
    $view views_get_view('my_view');$view->execute_display($display_id$args);?>
Source: http://groups.drupal.org/node/10129 


Through Arguments:-
$view = views_get_view('view_name');
$view->set_display('default');
$view->pager['items_per_page'] = 5;
$view->set_arguments(array($id));
$result = $view->render();
$view->is_cacheable = TRUE;
print $result;
Through Filters:-
$view = views_get_view('view_name');
$view->pager['items_per_page'] = 3;
$display_id = 'block_1';
$view->set_display($display_id);
$item = $view->get_item($display_id, 'filter', 'title');
$item2 = $view->get_item($display_id, 'filter', 'nid');
$item['value'] = $load_node->title;
$item2['value'] = array('value'=> $load_node->nid);
$view->set_item($display_id, 'filter', 'title', $item);
$view->set_item($display_id, 'filter', 'nid', $item2);
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->execute();
$output = $view->render();
print $output;