I've got a block view set up to get the latest 3 blog posts by term. I'm using Term ID with depth as the argument and providing the default arg using php code with return arg(1); as the arg.

Works fine in views preview with arguments entered, but on an actual page it returns nothing. Never had a problem with this before in 6.x. Is there something new I'm completely missing? I've read through docs and tried a few different ways to return the default arg, but no luck.

The view is attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Have you printed (e.g. with dsm) arg(1) to make sure it's what you expect? I'm surprised it works while editing the view. Normally I have the opposite issue, although I haven't used Views 7 much and as such probably aren't qualified to comment. But thought I'd take a stab :)

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jseltzer commented

Yeah, I tried changing the argument code to account for pathauto aliasing (even though the aliases worked before in preview.

So I changed the term id argument code to 

$path = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']); 
$path = explode('/', $path); 
if($path[0] == 'laws' ||$ path[0] == 'issues' || $path[0] == 'culprits' || $path[0] == 'themes' :
return $path[1];
endif;

Using dpm on $path[1] gives me the term alias and I assumed that the Argument validator for Taxonomy Terms, which is set to "Term Name converted to Term ID", would get me the ID, but maybe not?

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jseltzer commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Added a return ''; to the default argument if the statement was false and that did the trick. Not entirely sure why though.

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doompal commented

Perhaps because your code is expected to return a value in every case?