Help with passing arguments to Views module to filter content

I believe you want to look in the Arguments section. I think there are arguments for the various profile fields.

You can't refer to an argument in a filter; but you shouldn't have to. The arguments generally act as filters.

Now I can set up a filter to do this [...]
challenge I have is trying to allow users to type [in ...]

You can 'expose' a filter. Exposing a filter puts it on a form where the user can type values in.

In the settings page for the filter you'll see an 'Expose' button. Click it.

I had the same issue of trying to pass a variable and I found a solution. I dont know enough PHP/SQL to tell you why this works, but it does.

Hopefully you can make your way thru this and find some useful information:

I needed to have multiple views in one node which took 3 different content types and sorted them by term. Basically its a mashup page of all the content types related to a taxonomy term, e.g. Blogs, Stories, Pages of Volkswagen>>Jettas
In my View, under Arguments I used these 3 arguments in this order (its important to order them correctly).

Argument Type>>Taxonomy:Term ID; Default>>Return Page Not Found;Title>>%1;Option>>0
Argument Type>>Node:Type; Default>>Display All Values
Argument Type>>Node:Feed Selector; Default>>Display All Values

I cloned the view and added filters as needed and used this http://drupal.org/node/212547 to then populate the views into one

I then needed to add a hardcoded link after each view which would send the user to only the content type view based on the taxonomy term, e.g. Blogs of Volkswagen>>Jettas.

I edited the PHP like this.

// This is some structuring HTML
print t("<br />");
print t("<h2>Newest Groups</h2>");

// Build and print the view: first tell Views to embed the next view,
// then tell the function WHICH view you mean (you have defined
// this in the variables $view_1, $view_2 and $view_3 above.
// Next, pass into these views the Arguments from the primary view
// which you retrieved with global $current_view; and last but not
// least, "true, 10" enables paging and pages after 10 nodes are listed -
// change this number to whatever you need.
// So let's start outputting the first view:
print views_build_view('embed', $view_1, $current_view->args, true, 10);

//This creates a link at the bottom of the view that is generated

print t("<p><a href=\"/taxonomy/term/".arg(2)."\">groups</a></p>");

I dont know if this was the easiest/best way to do this, but it works for my purposes. Good luck and I hope this helps.

Hi,

I am having problems with View Filter block

1. create a view with arguments
2. expose filters- these filters are not the same as the arguments passed in

if exposed filters is used, you get expected result

http://someurl.com/$arg/$arg/$arg
http://someurl.com/all/all/1?filter= ....

3. but when Views Filter Block is used the above URL becomes:
http://someurl.com/?filter=

with no arguments... HELP!

This is a major issue for me anyone else?

Chris

My issue was with Views Filter Block

solution in views_filterblock.module

// Views filter block erases arguments
// change function
// http://drupal.org/node/112552#comment-796805
// Change action line
// http://drupal.org/node/112552#comment-823797

function views_filterblock($view) {
$action = (substr($_GET['q'], 0, strlen($view->url)) == $view->url) ? $_GET[q]\
: $view->url;

$form = views_filters($view);
$form['#action'] = url($action);
$form['#views_filterblock'] = true;
return $form;
}

Did you ever figure this out?

Not that I need to do it now, but I just stumbled on this looking for a way to add a link as a view field (which I've not figured out yet) and your thread was very interesting. I can imagine many uses for it.

If you've figured this out please post what you learned.

Cheers!
Cozmo

Desperately seeking argument handling help, but I don't have a (PHP) clue! The following is for filtering by taxonomy terms:

1. I'm using a simple HTML form to submit to a view, and the resulting URL looks like http://localhost/?q=my_view&color=1&color=3. What should my argument handling code look like so that it treats it the same as it would http://localhost/?q=my_view/1,3?

I've looked at http://drupal.org/node/70145 and http://drupal.org/node/54455, but I can't even get print("Hello"); to work from the argument handling section.

2. I'd like to have a select field per vocabulary. Multiple values within a vocab are OR'ed. Multiple vocabs are AND'ed. e.g.
selecting Color: Blue, Green and Size: Small is treated as ((blue OR green) AND Small) or ((1 OR 3) AND 7) where Blue tid is 1, Green tid 3, Small tid is 7. Submitting to the view results in http://localhost/?q=my_view&color=1&color=3&size=7. Is it possible to create argument handling code to accomplish this?

I solved my problem with this thread. http://drupal.org/node/344548

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Create a block view and change accordingly in the Arguments section.