Embed View :: How the heck do we embed views in nodes in D6?

Try this:

$view = views_get_view('viewname');
print $view->execute_display('default', $args);

Be sure the $args you pass is an array. I think you can just leave the argument off if you don't have args at all.

what should i do if I want to embed 2 views on same page?

I figured out, Thanks

And just to elaborate, you can change 'default' to whatever display id you want ('page_1', 'block_1', 'block_2'), eg.:

  $view = views_get_view('viewname');
  $display = $view->execute_display('block_1');
  print $display['content'];

This is necessary if you want your embedded view to pick up any of your customised theming.

Has anyone else had issues with node titles being changed when you call execute_display? I'm calling it at the end of my node.tpl.php, and it seems to somehow be overriding the node's title with it's own, even though the title field should have all ready been printed. It's like the call to execute_display is getting the entire theme engine reset and redone. I'll keep on it, but I was hoping somehow that this isn't an issue with views and is just my site :)

Thanks,
--Andrew

You should create a new issue for this. It's a different question to the one in the parent post, which has been resolved. Be nice to merlin.

Never ever ever use execute_display() to embed a view. Always use preview(). See views_embed_view() for the canonical example.

view::execute_display() should only be used where the display handler was intended to be used. i.e, a 'page' display should only use execute_display via a proper page callback, and a 'block' display should only use execute_display via hook_block.

Thank you - calling views_embed_view() is working perfectly!

For reference, my snippet:

$url = explode('/', trim(request_uri(), '/'));
$url[0]= str_replace( '?q=', '', $url[0]);

$args = array($url[1]);
print views_embed_view('nodequeue_1', 'page', $url[1]);

--Andrew

I think you'll find that the first part of all that can be eliminated by using the arg() function.

arg(1) perhaps.

Yeah, I used to hope so too Merlin :). The problem is that I'm grabbing the argument from a URL alias set with the pathauto. When you call arg(), you get the internal system path of the node you're looking at, and last I looked there was no Drupal API to easily get the unchanged path to the current page. Though it's probably better to call drupal_get_path_alias() with $_GET['q'], and then you avoid the removal of ?q=.

--Andrew

actually no, you're right the first time. If you call drupal_get_path_alias() you'll do a database lookup and if it's a URL with multiple aliases you will always get the same one regardless of which alias was actually used.

I'd like to hook a filter into this view in my node-games.tpl.php file as I can't figure out how to do this with argument handling directly in the views 2 admin tool. Can I do something like this? Can't seem to get it to work. So close.....Yet so far.

$sql = "SELECT field_hometeam_nid FROM {content_type_games} WHERE nid = %d";
$myhometeam = db_result(db_query($sql, arg(1)));
$view = views_get_view('schedules_home');
function yourmodule_views_query_alter(&$view, &$query) {$query->where[0]['clauses'][3] = "node_data_field_hometeam.field_hometeam_nid = '$myhometeam'";}
print $view->execute_display('Block');

If not, where can I place this function so that this works? FYI - Basically what this is saying is "Take a [game content type] node and find all the games for the home team [home team is a node reference field to a [team content type] node that references the home team for the game. Then I am trying to render this view in a block within the game node [Displays the home team's season schedule]

Thanks for any help.

Tim

Sorry if this is closed. But it's the nearest issue I have. I just don't want to hijack nor duplicate, only extend the question.

I managed to display views of the current user using this:
views_embed_view('status', 'block_1', $uid)

But I want to display the limit in that line as well, say to 1 or 3 nodes, while at the same I can have the same block with unlimited nodes display.

After reading the function views_embed_view in the module, and searching all around the world, I give up now, really.

I tried views_embed_view('status', 'block_1', $uid, 1) and views_embed_view('status', 'block_1', $uid, $limit = 1) and several blind break downs to no luck.

Please tell me if this is possible with that function to add the limit. If not how do I make it?

In the meantime, I have two options:
1. Two different blocks with each own Items to display.
2. Two different views with different Items to display.

But I considered both tedious. Any easier way?
Thanks.

You should just be able to do a theme override for your view. I haven't pulled up code, but I'm sure that you can do something like sizeof($view->rows) or whatever contains all of the nodes to theme. It shouldn't have anything to with embedding specifically.

--Andrew

In the meantime, I have two options:
1. Two different blocks with each own Items to display.
[...]
But I considered both tedious.

What's tedious in that? Just add another "Block" display to your view, and override its "item per page" option. Nothing tedious. Then pass 'block_2', or whatever, to views_embed_view().

I managed to display views of the current user using this:
views_embed_view('status', 'block_1', $uid)

But I want to display the limit

You could try:

$view = views_get_view('status') or die('No "status" view.');
$view->set_display('block_1');
$view->display_handler->set_option('items_per_page', 3);
print $view->preview('block_1', array($uid));

I haven't tried this, though. Expect typos. The "tedious" way would be the better choice for non-programmers.

You are right. Thanks for the light.

I embed my view with this code:

  $view = views_get_view('viewname');
  $display = $view->execute_display('block_1');
  print $display['content'];

But how can I style this view?

I created view and I putted it on my page but it looks awful - how can I style it?

Hi,

I have problems with some divs that I dont need; some divs like:

<div class="view-content">
<div class="views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last">

and I dont need those.

I checked all my tpl.php files of my view and there is no divs like this - it can be that this divs are served with this 'default'
in this line

						$view = views_get_view('Stories_on_frontpage');
						print $view->execute_display('default');
					

Edit: Added <code> tags so the divs didn't get stripped by the input filter.
Where I can style this default display of a view?

pegleglax - I did that. All that.

But I still have some divs that are displaying on my page and I dont see them in those .tpl.php files.

I checked all my tpl files and I dont see those divs.

Can you tell me what mean that 'default' in view displaying?

div class="view-content"
div class="views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"

Those divs are frustrating me.

Thanks for your reply.

I've installed devel module - 6.x-1.12 - and it is not working properly.

When I checked 'Themer info' and I've selected div, any div from my page and it is not working, its loading, loading, loading and loading and I didnt get any informations.

I tried this several times and always loading and loading.

view-content is coming from views-view.tpl.php

views-row-* is coming from views-view-unformatted.tpl.php

Please note that extra divs aren't usually a problem. Unless you've got some really bad CSS they shouldn't do anything at all to your output except make the code a little bit bigger. So I'm not sure why you would be going to a lot of effort to find and eliminate them. Someday you may find you want them.

I really dont need them and I dont love junk in my code.

Anyone know what is a problem with devel module?

I really dont need them and I dont love junk in my code.

That's fine but why are you wasting other people's time on trivialities? If you're not good enough to remove the divs yourself, and they aren't causing any problems, then that's a totally inappropriate use of this issue queue.

And this is not the devel issue queue.

sub

$view = views_get_view('video');
print $view->execute_display('default', $args);

that's work but i'm using views slideshow filter and this slideshow not working ok when i'm embedded view

mitjaxp: Please post a new issue with your question. Try the Views slideshow issue queue to see if anyone there knows more.

spent an hour trying to get this to work; then found this post.. doaahhh!!

figured i'd post my results for those stumbling upon this as well:

i was trying to add a block into the header of another view. wanted to insert in to 2 different views but with differences in each so i created a default and a block display.

this shows the 3 things i tried and the bottom one is the only one that worked:

$view = views_get_view('archive_author');
$view->set_arguments(array(arg(2)));
$view->set_display('block_1');

//echo $view->execute_display();   - NOTE: worked for default display but not block display

//echo views_embed_view('archive_author', 'block_1');  // DOESN'T WORK

print $view->preview('block_1'); // this is the one that worked!!

hope this helps.

slight correction, the 3rd line, where i set the display, isn't needed for calling the preview method the way i do where i pass the display id.

This probably would've worked:

echo views_embed_view('archive_author', 'block_1', arg(1));

cool, thanks, i'll try that next time.

When I use the code below in my node-tpl.php I am missing how it gets the argument from the url (I am using taxonomy terms as the argument, and in the url is ..content/taxonomy_term)

  $view_args = array('');
  $display_id = 'page_1';
  $view = views_get_view('destination_overview_1');
       if (!empty($view)) {
        print $view->execute_display($display_id , $view_args);
  }

If I add the taxonomy term in array('taxonomy_term') the correct information is displayed, however I need that term passed from the url...
Apologies if this is a basic question or already documented but I have not found the answer. Thanks.

By reading above I tried just using this...

echo views_embed_view('myviewname', 'default', arg(1));

If I use arg(0) or arg(1) all that is printed is the title and the comments on the node for the taxonomy... and none of the fields. If I use arg(2) or more all the fields for all the nodes of that content type are printed on the page...

I have themed my fields for the view with view.tp.php files, and it work on the view configuration page with the argument on love preview showing the right node.

I'm trying to embed a table created in views in a node-tpl.php file. This snippet works:

$view = views_get_view('viewname');
print $view->execute_display('default');

But it doesn't display the information in the table form that is previewed in Views.

When I use this snippet:

  $view = views_get_view('viewname');
  $display = $view->execute_display('block_1');
  print $display['content'];

I get this error:
"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/cg5748/public_html/swinefluretinalscan.com/enter/themes/garland/node-summarypage.tpl.php on line 24"

I can't find a way to embed the thing while preserving the table formatting. Please advise!

how to pass a filter or an argument?

I thought I understood all this but I just re-read all the comments above and now I'm confused:

In the answer to the original question of embedding views into nodes, merlinofchaos says (in comment #1) that we should use $views->execute_display() to embed the views. But, then in comment #13 he seems to contradict himself by saying never ever ever use execute_display() to embed a view... (and refers to views_embed_view as the proper method).

So, I think I'm missing some context here. Which code is right for embedding the view into a node and why is the other incorrect? Thanks for the clarity...

At the time I wrote #1 things were a little different. execute_display() needs to be used only where the display was meant to be used, or you will get unexpected behavior.

[question deleted by virtue of being idiotic]

This is probably an imagecache issue, but I'll ask here as it was alluded to as a problem above. When using views_embed_view (or execute view for that matter) I'm not getting the same block that I see in the preview on the views page. I first assumed it was an order of module execution issue, but I've set my module weight rather high and still see the problem.

Specifically, I'm using imagecache and lightbox on a view that generates a grid of images. When in views preview, it works fine (or as a block). But when embedded, the lightbox markup is missing. I could put it back with theming, but it should be there in the first place.

Suggestions?

Don't hijack issues.

Make a new one, i think the problem could be 1. wrong display select in preview or embed, missing js from lightbox2 because you do it in page.tpl.php

i added this in to my node-content-type.tpl.php:

print views_embed_view('view_name','default',arg(1));
(my path was /node/nid )

worked great.

@#43 - liquidcms
Thank you very much. Your example was the only one to work for me. ty ty

Currently if i use

$view = views_get_view('Banner_miss');
print $view->execute_display("block_1");

i only get Array returned, using this in node-something.tpl.php, is this still working or what is needed now to have view displayed?

When embedding a view, use $view->preview(), not $view->execute_display().

Thanks for posting this, liquidcms. I was having some trouble getting my block display view to show in a node.

I just can't get this to work. No matter what I replace 'default' with I always get the default view. For example, I'm trying to use a block which displays only 5 nodes here but I still get the default view:

<?php
$view = views_get_view('Beaches');
$view->set_arguments(array(arg(2)));
$view->set_display('block5');
print $view->preview('block5')
?>

I've tried all the variants above but nothing seems to work. I must be making a mistake somewhere.

block5 is not a valid display name. i guess it's block_5

Where do I put these codes?

I've used the following code to embed my view:

<?php
$view = views_get_view('seminarsview');
print $view->execute_display('default');
?>

However, now I would like to display each row of the view in a separate tab on the page. What code can I use to just embed a single row from a particular view, instead of just the whole view?

This is a total different question.

You need definitive quite some custom coding to achive this.

In general hijacking issues is not nice.

subscribe

Sorry. I gave it quite a bit of thought before posting and thought that the question was related enough to the original issue to be a part of this thread. I guess I was wrong, so I will post a new issue.

I've tried all of these different options, and can only get the view content to display. The Title never shows...

Just changing the status and version.

I've tried all of these different options, and can only get the view content to display. The Title never shows...

This depense on the display plugin you use. But i don't know one beside views attach which displays the title on the same region than the view.

Please don't hijack issues. Noone want's to read long issues with ten total different questions in it.

thank you merlinofchaos. this worked for me. VIEWS is really great (once you get the hang of it)!

Thank you my friend!

how does this method interact with drupal's basic caching ? Is it making a database call every time a view is requested ?

What about Drupal 7?
views_embed_view() seems to not exist anymore....

Why do you think this? It's definitive there

./views.module:1373:function views_embed_view($name, $display_id = 'default') {

rookie mistake.... I was only looking in *.php files... thanks very much

I still can't embed any other display than the 'default' view. What exactly is the display ID? If I create a view which contains a block called 'i am a block' is this the displayID? Surely it can't be simply 'block' because it's possible to create multiple blocks within a single view.

I suspect the problem is that I'm not specifiying the correct ID...but where is the display ID found?

Found out how to identify the display ID. Thanks to this link:

http://www.pridedesign.ie/content/drupal-get-view-display-id

Thanks fit #25..worked great. I tried some others, but couldn't get it to display! just what I needed. Now I have to style it.

Finally... a thread that addresses the issue of embedding a view that is accurate! The beauty of simplicity!

If you're just trying to embed a view in a view as I was: http://drupal.org/project/views_field_view

Hi All,

I've got the view embedded, but for some reason, my links do not work inside the view. The links work elsewhere on the page. Any ideas how to fix this or get around it?

Thanks,
Rob

<?php
$block = module_invoke('views', 'block_view', 'related_content-block');
print render($block);
?>

<?php
$view = views_get_view('related_content');
print $view->execute_display('default');
?>

<?php
$view = views_get_view('related_content');
print $view->preview('default');
?>

view name is RELATED_CONTENT (machine name. And in first example u need to add what is inside view -> Advanced ->
Other -> Machine Name: block (block or page by default).

So we got view inside a module (d7) but how to print view title ?

I'm trying to embed the a view in a view's footer.

All the examples here worked on nodes but none works in a view ???

how do I do that?

Just because it took me a few minutes to work it out...

The $args array is the args taken by the view itself. So, if you have a view that takes the nid as it's only arguement, from within your tpl file you can call

      <?php
        $view = views_get_view('your_view');
        print $view->execute_display('default',array($node->nid));
      ?>

Not sure if #84 was for me, if it was just let you know that doesn't work for me.

Thanks

Finally I got it ... thanks to Kerios83 #82 post

I used this snippet

<?php
$view = views_get_view('my_view_name');
print $view->execute_display('page_1');
?>

Thanks to everyone ... Great job guys :)

what about setting custom template suggestions?

For example, I wan't to embbed a view, but use one row tpl or another based on some parameter. How can I do that?

Block from taxonomy view with title?

use this:

$view = views_get_view('view_machine_name');
$display = $view->execute_display('display_machine_name');
if( $display['content']!='' )
{
	echo "<div class='someclasses'><h2>Title</h2>".$display['content']."</div>";
}

here here. I'm wondering the same thing. Shouldn't need a module for this. Should just be the right syntax of a snippet of php.

fixing typo