How to cal views into tab's content?

You just theme the view and put it in the 'content' key:

  $tabs[] = array(
    'title' => t('Your title'),
    'content' => theme('view', 'your-view-name'),
  );

hi,

can you tell how to call view's block instead of view itself?

thanks!

@ yngens,

Just duplicate the view, and uncheck "provide" page. Then it will call the block, or check out this module.

http://drupal.org/project/panels_tabs

Edited to add:

What would be the correct snippit to print a custom block?

Example:

<?php
function magic_tabs_test_callback() {
  $tabs[] = array(
    'title' => t('Top Rated'),
    'content' => t('Would like this to be a custom block with the name Rated'),
  );
  $tabs[] = array(
    'title' => t('Top Hated'),
    'content' => t('Would like this to be a custom block with the name Hated'),
  );
  return $tabs;
}
?>

Thanks Prodigy. I knew of that method. But probably there is a way to call view's block (preserving page view itself too) directly via theme function, isn't there?

@yngens: In that case you can use:

  $tabs[] = array(
    'title' => t('Your title'),
    'content' => theme('view', 'your-view-name', NULL, NULL, 'block'),
  );

@Prodigy: there's no easy way to do that. I'll add the required code to the module.

I was just trying a bunch of different ways I thought would work, but they wouldn't.
I try to avoid views whenever I can just do the SQL myself for a block, so if this could be patched in , or if it is already possible calling in custom blocks would be uber fantastic.

I'll add easier way to do this with all kinds of blocks, not just custom, but for the meantime you can use:

  $bid = 2;
  $block = (object)module_invoke('block', 'block', 'view', $bid);
  $block->module = 'block';
  $block->delta = $bid;
  $tabs[] = array(
    'title' => t('Display a custom block'),
    'content' => theme('block', $block),
  );

(assign your own block id to $bid)

Great! Thanks and I will test this first thing in the morning. This seems easy enough. I'll report back.

#7
Prodigy - May 27, 2008 - 19:46

I was just trying a bunch of different ways I thought would work, but they wouldn't.
I try to avoid views whenever I can just do the SQL myself for a block, so if this could be patched in , or if it is already possible calling in custom blocks would be uber fantastic.

Prodigy, may I ask why do you do that? Obviously, to gain some performance? But is the difference so much? Does it worth it?
I am asking this because if it really worth it, I also would like to switch making direct MySQL calls instead of using views.

thanks, yhager, for #6. works great!

another question - is it possible to suppress displaying pager in a block? in my views settings for the block there is no pager used, nevertheless magic-tabs displays my block with the pager.

@yngens: I'm happy to help, but these are all generic views issues, unrelated to magic tabs.
If you want to display a limited amount of items in your block and no pager, use values instead of the 'NULL, NULL' we wrote above.
Consult the documentation at http://api.freestylesystems.co.uk/api/function/theme_view/5 (or in your views.module local install - search for theme_view())