How to create a template for a view

you want to have an other output? i needed to create the output of my view like this:

function zen_views_view_list_Gallery($view, $nodes, $type) { ...

Enable the Views Theme Wizard module, a new tab will appear in Views - "Theme Wizard", click that and select your view, then "Simple List" and click "Select Theme Type" - follow the instructions from there - it will generate the a tpl file for your view, e.g. views-list-myview.tpl.php, and some code to place in your template.php file. It will also generate a css file.

In the tpl file you can strip out all the html if you want, and get rid of all the "labels" if you dont want them - use whatever html you want to layup the view.

One thing you'll find is that because its a list, it will come in <ul><li></li></ul> , a real pain for most views...

What i do is this - in the code that goes in template.php, right near the end you'll see this line:
return theme('item_list', $items);

Just replace it with this and say goodbye to that pesky list markup...
return implode("", $items);

Good luck!

Hello, you can also try Active Template for customizing your views. Active Template is like ConTemplate except it is for use with views.

Active Template works with both block and page views. Furthermore, you can have multiple templates for any given view and access them independently. Unlike ConTemplate, Active Template allows easy integration of JavaScript/jQuery, and CSS in the same view template editor so that creating custom view templates REALLY easy.

Regards, Derek
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