Computing a field from a view
Last modified: March 25, 2009 - 17:51
Your mileage may vary, but here is some code which calculates a field based on a view.
This code may not do what you want— if the view changes (e.g. another node is added), this field would not be re-evaluated till the next time the node is saved.
One (ugly) solution is to put similar code into the header or footer of a view.
This is a coding alternative to the views_calc module, which allows a great deal of flexibility, but is perhaps not ideal.
<?php
$view = views_get_view('YOURVIEWNAME');
$info=views_build_view('items', $view, array($node->nid), false, false);
$total=0;
//drupal_set_message(serialize($info));
foreach ($info['items'] as $item) {
$total+=$item->YOUR_FIELD_USE_THE_DEBUG_MESSAGE_ABOVE_TO_FIND_IT;
}
$node_field[0]['value']=$total;
?>
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Configured: Yes
Code added: Yes
But when I un-comment the message it does not showing any thing.
Regards.
:)
Beautifulmind
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Also, throws error: call to undefined function views_build_view()
:)
Beautifulmind
Views 2
For Views 2 to insert the raw output from a view you just need something like:
$node_field[0]['value']=views_embed_view('YOUR_VIEW_NAME', $display_id = 'YOUR_DISPLAY' [, ARGUMENT 1, ARGUMENT 2, ...]);More info on views_embed_view is at http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/embed
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