Drupal6: Passing Argument(s) to Embedded View

Thanks, I know about setting a path for a page view but what I need is a way to embed a view within a page actually. I defined a menu item to invoke my page. The view embedded in the page would take an argument to select the type of node. Based on the type of node selected, the view would display the node contents...
I hope I make myself understood... Thanks for any help you can provide.

Hi,

I tried this and I am not getting any display. Where in there is the argument? my url is company/talentwave and company=node and talentwave=nid but talentwave is also a term. the headlines that need to show up on the note are associated with the term 'talentwave' and not the node 'talenwave'. I would play with the argument within the view itself but this snippet looks like it wants to convert the node to a taxonomy variables so probably wouldn't work.

As an aside, I imagine i could completely override the node with a view display shown by term. But that brings me back full circle, I can't override node/% because panels does not work yet and I haven't been able to find any other way to override the node. I'd prefer to get it working in the node for now and switch to panels later when a stable version comes out. K

I guess one other option i have is node reference which i wanted to avoid because the select list of companies to choose for each headline will be daunting after time. Furthermore, I can't find node reference anywhere in the argument or relationship settings for creating the view. This seems like such a basic thing, get some news headlines relevant to the node id to show on the same page. Occams' razor ... I'm certainly complicating things. Once I figure this out I will create a step-by-step tutorial for non programmers to follow. Cheers, K

To get the nid from the current page,

use something like:

<?php
$path = $_GET['q']; //path now has /node/123
preg_match('@^node/(\d+)$@', $path, $match); //match now has 123, feed this in as a nid argument to views

drupal_set_message('our nid:<pre>' . $print_r($match,TRUE) . '</pre>','status',FALSE);
?>

nevets,

would the same code work as a php argument handler within the views default argument text area? panels seems pretty stable now. i have the page setup at node/% but it is a page of composite content and I'd like some of the block views to take on a term argument rather than a node argument. right now my views work fine in the view preview, but once they are output on the panel they are not working and I suspect that is because they are not seeing the term in the url. thanks, K

Thanks so much for this.

I'm using Ubercart and I want to embed a view under the product with a slideshow of other products in this category (taxonomy term).

I have a view called product_node_category_view that is setup with a slide show (views slideshow module)

I copied node.tpl.php and named the copy -> node-product.tpl.php
I added the following lines to the bottom:

This displayed no view at the bottom of my product node

<?php
$view = views_get_view('product_node_category_view');
print $view->execute_display('default', array(arg(1)));
?>

This displayed all products in all categories in a view below the product node.

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

This now displays only the other products in the same category

<?php
$wanted_vocab = 1; //  Change to the  vocabulary id of the one you are  using
foreach ( (array)$node->taxonomy as  $term ) {
    if   ( $term->vid  == $wanted_vocab  ) {
      $view = views_get_view('product_node_category_view');
      print $view->execute_display('default', array($term->name));
   }
}
?>

The only problem is that if a product is in two categories, it shows the view twice.