Views - hiding labels for empty fields

I'm trying to figure out the exact same thing.

If you don't mind sharing, how do you do this with PHP? What's the code and where do you put it?

I just realized I had the same problem in my D6 site and I figured out a solution using the Theme Information in my theme.

I copied the code for views-view-fields.tpl.php and added an if statement to check for the existence of $field->content, namely:

	<?php if ($field->content): ?>
    <?php if ($field->label): ?>
      <label class="views-label-<?php print $field->class; ?>">
        <?php print $field->label; ?>:
      </label>
    <?php endif; ?>
	<?php endif; ?>

Seems to work fine. I'd like to hear of better/different options.

the issue i have is similar but different. I have 2 content types. One has a cck image field and one doesn't. So when I build the view I select both content types. What I then want to do is print a block with the image and title of the nodes. BUT if the node type is the one that doesn't have a cck image I want to print a default image.

The issue I am having is that even if the field is not printing it is still returning an empty value. I have tried all these

if (!$field->content) { print a default image }
or
if ($fields->content==NULL { print default image }

But nothing works. For some reason for the content type that has no Image field it still prints something although there is nothing in the html code and nothing for the view to print. So the fields loop and think there is something there when there isn't.

Any ideas?

Hi,
I have the same problem and can't seem to figure it out...

First of all, I am using the latest version of Drupal and Views. I have a view of type User displaying an unformatted list. I want to hide the labels for the empty fields.

I followed the instructions in the post entitled 'The best way to explain this'. I clicked on Row style output and copied the code into a file that I named views.view.field.tpl.php I made the modifications and then uploaded that and cleared my cache.

however I get the error message:
warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/perm2327/public_html/LLF-test/sites/all/themes/nitobe/views-view-field.tpl.php on line 22.

I tried a lot of things and don't want to get into details in order not to confuse you. I have a question: besides the views-view-field.tpl.php is there another .tpl.php file that I need to copy from views into my theme folder in order for the override to work?

Can anyone help? I can give more details if you need (I am famous for not giving enough details!)

Thanks!

This feature is apparently added to Views in the latest dev version. See #480162: Hide labels for empty fields.

One step that wasn't mentioned here that needs to be done is clearing the site's cache by doing the following steps:

go to Administer -> Site Configuration -> Performance
click on "clear cache data"
then go to your view and verify.

Thanks,

If you are wanting to output a table, the process is slightly different. (my file was views-view-table.tpl.php)

The code I used was this:

<?php
// $Id: views-view-table.tpl.php,v 1.8 2009/01/28 00:43:43 merlinofchaos Exp $
/**
 * @file views-view-table.tpl.php
 * Template to display a view as a table.
 *
 * - $title : The title of this group of rows.  May be empty.
 * - $header: An array of header labels keyed by field id.
 * - $fields: An array of CSS IDs to use for each field id.
 * - $class: A class or classes to apply to the table, based on settings.
 * - $row_classes: An array of classes to apply to each row, indexed by row
 *   number. This matches the index in $rows.
 * - $rows: An array of row items. Each row is an array of content.
 *   $rows are keyed by row number, fields within rows are keyed by field ID.
 * @ingroup views_templates
 */
?>		

<?
/*
check to see if there is any content, so we can
decide if we need a header
*/
$i=0;
foreach ($rows as $count => $row): 
  foreach ($row as $field => $content): 
    if($content):
      $column_has_content[$i] = TRUE; 
    endif;
    $i++;
  endforeach;
endforeach; 
?>
		
		
<table class="<?php print $class; ?>">
  <?php if (!empty($title)) : ?>
    <caption><?php print $title; ?></caption>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <thead>
    <tr>      
      <?php $i=0; ?>
      <?php foreach ($header as $field => $label): ?>	 
        <?if ($column_has_content[$i++] == TRUE):?>
          <th class="views-field views-field-<?php print $fields[$field]; ?>">
            <?php print $label; ?>
          </th>
       <?endif;?>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <?php foreach ($rows as $count => $row): ?>
      <tr class="<?php print implode(' ', $row_classes[$count]); ?>">
        <?php foreach ($row as $field => $content): ?>
          <?php if($content): ?>
            <td class="views-field views-field-<?php print $fields[$field]; ?>">
              <?php print $content; ?>
            </td>
          <?php endif; ?>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
      </tr>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
  </tbody>
</table>

I'm adding this here in case anyone hits the same issue. I needed to NOT print a field in a custom template if it was empty. However, checking the "hide if empty" option under the field settings in the view wasn't enough. The system kept spitting out an UNDEFINED_INDEX error.

This snippet of code embedded in my view template did the trick:

<?php print (!empty($fields['field_FIELD_NAME'])) ? 
$fields['field_FIELD_NAME']->content : ''; ?>

Maybe this will help someone. I couldn't find an apparent solution anywhere online.