Hi there,

I was trying to call Views Rotator's block manually, according to Placing the contents
of a block in any location - but it doesn't work:

<?php
$block = module_invoke('views_rotator', 'block', 'view', 0);
print $block['content'];
?>

So, what works? :]

Szy.

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Aart’s picture

Aart commented

According to my research, invoking the block doesn't work with views. You have to embed it. However, I tried two methods and neither succesfully loaded the rotator. Just a normal view.

This topic [http://drupal.org/node/309017] supposedly has a solution for D5 users.

If someone could 'translate' this fix to D6/Views2, I would be extremely grateful!

mfer’s picture

mfer commented

You are looking at embedding it directly into a page? Like a page.tpl.php file?

If that's the case you want to use views_embed_view to embed it. Now, you don't want to call this directly in your template.php files. This will add JavaScript to a page and if the JS is already added to the header it can't be altered.

So, what you need to do is have a template.php file. In there have something like.

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  $vars['my_embedded_view'] = views_embed_view('my_view');
  $vars['scripts'] = drupal_get_js(); // This rebuilds the scripts variable with those added by the view
}

Then in your page.tpl.php file place the $my_embedded_view variable where you want the view.

Aart’s picture

Aart commented

Thank you for your reply.

I am a bit confused though about how exactly this 'phptemplate_preprocess_page' function works.
The argument passed (&$vars) is a pointer to an array with multiple views, but the 'views_embed_view' function will only return the
'my_view' content and places it on the 'my_embedded_view' position.

It is not clear to me how this would generate content with embedded javascript.
Could you clarify the usage of this function with a simple call and print example?

szy’s picture

szy commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
Issue tags: +views, +Views Rotator

My working solution for two different rotated views, thanks to mfer! :]

In template.php:

function my-theme_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  $vars['my_rotated_view'] = views_embed_view('my_rotated_view');
  $vars['my_another_rotated_view_on_front'] = views_embed_view('my_another_rotated_view_on_front');
  $vars['scripts'] = drupal_get_js();
}

... where my_rotated_view and my_another_rotated_view_on_front are names
of my views build with Views Rotator style.

Then in page.tpl.php in place where I want to see the view:

<?php print $my_rotated_view; ?>

... and in page-front.tpl.php:

<?php print $my_another_rotated_view_on_front; ?>

More - in mycustomnode-node.tpl.php:

<?php if ($view->name == 'my_rotated_view'): ?>

<div class="...

[here comes your custom template for this node type in this particular view]

<?php endif; ?>

Szy.

brenes’s picture

brenes commented

Hmm its not working in my case. I edited my template.php with the following lines 

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  $vars['imagerotatortest'] = views_embed_view('imagerotatortest');
  $vars['scripts'] = drupal_get_js();
}

called the variable <?php print $imagerotatortest; ?> in page-front.tpl.php but nothing is showing on the frontpage. "imagerotatortest" is the name of my view containing the views rotator design.

Any suggestions how to make it work?