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Every single project I work on I use views. I never have problems with it. Every time I need to make it do something unconventional, theres bazillions of hooks, preprocess functions, template files, and ways to extend it if need be.
If the whole world understood drupal, Views would immediately be championed as an epic work of art.
Thanks for creating/helping to maintain something positively awesome.
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Comment #1
rfayABSOLUTELY TRUE! What a great thing. Solves so many problems. Spot on every time. Rids the world of crap one-off code. Solves significant problems with tiny effort. YAY!
Comment #2
tim.plunkettChiming in, I'd like to echo a tweet I saw the other day: "You know, everyone gives Views a bad rap on documentation but have you ever actually read this code? #doxygen #win"
Always amazing!
Comment #3
dmitrig01 CreditAttribution: dmitrig01 commented+1
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beeradb CreditAttribution: beeradb commentedCould not agree more. +1 to this thread. And thanks to everyone who makes views happen :)
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bojanz CreditAttribution: bojanz commentedAaawww, every project should have an issue like this once in a while :)
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Damien Tournoud CreditAttribution: Damien Tournoud commented+1 on the general versatility of Views, the Swiss Army Knife of Drupal.
We need more people to get involved, help Views! (by writing tests, contributing to discussions, writing patches, documenting, etc.).
Comment #7
tizzo CreditAttribution: tizzo commented+1!
Even after working with it for years I still find new things to do with it on weekly basis.
Views makes life more awesome. Huzzah!
Comment #8
iamjon CreditAttribution: iamjon commentedMixologic++
Comment #9
betamos CreditAttribution: betamos commented+1
Comment #10
jcarlson34 CreditAttribution: jcarlson34 commented+1 for Views and another +1 for the Views 3.x UI redesign. My understanding of Views has been exponential since that occurred.
Somehow before the redesign, I did not know what the override button was for! Used to build a lot of one page views! I guess you can overlook the simple things sometimes.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Comment #11
jfarry CreditAttribution: jfarry commented+1. The ease of use, whilst still retaining the utmost in functionality of Views has always astounded me.
An absolute "hat off" effort to you guys :) I look forward to the day when I can make a contribution to Drupal, like you guys have :)
Comment #12
mariusz.slonina CreditAttribution: mariusz.slonina commentedViews. The power in your hands.
Comment #13
restyler CreditAttribution: restyler commentedThank you for this amazing piece of software, guys. Views rocks.
Comment #14
thomas1977 CreditAttribution: thomas1977 commented+1
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esmerel CreditAttribution: esmerel commentedAlways fun to come across these ;)
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jtse CreditAttribution: jtse commented+1
Comment #17
davidmac CreditAttribution: davidmac commentedViews provides exactly what a content management system needs, power and flexibility. The functionality you have developed with views is second to none.
Many Thanks
Comment #18
ibandyop CreditAttribution: ibandyop commented"There Is No Charge For Awesomeness... Or Attractiveness"
Yes, I am talking about Views... what were you thinking ?
Many Thanks !
Comment #19
knalstaaf CreditAttribution: knalstaaf commentedViews gave me an absolute break-through in my webdev capabilities. Thank you Merlinofchaos, Dereine, Esmerel and Dww.
Comment #20
memoday CreditAttribution: memoday commentedHe who does not thank people does not thank God. Thanks for all people working on Views.
Comment #21
MichelleOh, I missed this issue. Yeah, +100000000 from me. :) Views rocks!
Michelle
Comment #22
ropaolle CreditAttribution: ropaolle commentedViews is like magic to me... and I love it. Thanks guys.
/RopaOlle
Comment #23
Sel_Space CreditAttribution: Sel_Space commentedThank You
Comment #24
bajanem CreditAttribution: bajanem commentedYou guys rock
Comment #25
Niremizov CreditAttribution: Niremizov commented"Views rocks" <- the most truthful truth.
Thank you.
Comment #26
eric__ CreditAttribution: eric__ commentedLike #1, I too find I've used Views on every single project. Now I found this post via Mr. Falk's posts and I got to the end of it and I find myself asking just why Views is so great.
I use it because it's a visual query builder, yes. But it just rocks" because it's essentially an API which means it 'works well with others'. It's real power isn't in it's own feature set but in what you can do with it between a small handful of other modules that also just rock. Those too, are API modules like CTools, Rules, ... (while I'm sure there are other they slip my mind due, undoutedly, to some Jedi mind-trick).
With just three (contributed) modules, one can do what in the past took countless one-off modules, and do so in a consistent way. Rules fire views or views fire rules. CTools fires rules and rules fire variants. It makes the obsessive-recursive in me feel like Genie.
To completely cloud my metaphors, Views itself is like a lightsaber - very cool ("fan-freakin-tastic" in fact) - and who wouldn't want one? But in combination with other API modules it is the Force.
May the Force be with you.
Comment #27
宁皓网_王皓 CreditAttribution: 宁皓网_王皓 commented非常感谢!Thank you
Comment #28
Elijah LynnViews is amazing!!!
Thanks to everyone who contributes to this project, I think it would be cool to see some of you math majors do some estimations on how many human hours have gone into making Views alone (not to mention Drupal Core). Like a million, 10 million or more?!
Big kudos to you Earl Miles and of course countess others!
Sincerely,
Elijah Lynn
Comment #29
eabquina CreditAttribution: eabquina commented+1 yeah!
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nithinkolekar CreditAttribution: nithinkolekar commentedviews followers -/'-/'-/' :)
Comment #31
halthA warm THANK YOU to all views creators and maintainers!
We couldn't go on with Drupal without it.
Thank you once again! :)
Comment #32
ramadan35 CreditAttribution: ramadan35 as a volunteer commentedMakes drupal a live
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danieltaoys CreditAttribution: danieltaoys commentedOh!It's a amazing!