Views block with taxonomy passed as an argument

For argument "Taxonomy: Term Id"

Set "Action to take if argument is not present: " to "Provide default argument"

Under "Default argument type:" select "PHP code", if this option is not available enable the "PHP filter" module.

In the text box (if the path is taxonomy/term/tid) add return arg(2);

Hi
Sorry for cross-posting. I Am also looking for something similar to this.

I want to have term name of my current node and let the view return desired fields from the nodes that share same taxonomy term name. However, the vocabularies are different of the 2 content types.

One node type is - articles with URL Alias - www.ex.com/article-network//

The other node type is - books with URL Alias - www.ex.com/books//

The complication is that both the content types have different vocabularies as article-categories for articles and book-categories for books. But, both the categories have same term names.

Now, I want when the article page is opened it should show the images of the books that share the same term name of the active article page.

I am hitting my head since last week but got no results.

Please guide!

Thanks in Advance!

I found this helpful article at: http://drupalsn.com/learn-drupal/drupal-questions/question-2650

I am trying to use the last term in the pathauto supplied URL as the argument. My URL is www.mysite.com/communities/area1. If I just type:

  return 'area1'; 

it works fine. But I wanted something a little more dynamic, like:

  $path = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
  $path = explode('/', $path);
  if ($path[0] == 'communities' && $path[1] != '') {
    return '$path[1]';
  }

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

I think the way to do this is to wrap the call to the view in php that gets the taxonomy from the page, but I'm not quite sure how to extract the bit that I want. This is modified from some code that I use to control showing specific blocks on pages with particular taxonomy terms:

print_r (taxonomy_node_get_terms(node_load(arg(1))));

This gives the results:

Tags: Array ( [90] => stdClass Object ( [tid] => 90 [vid] => 11 [name] => WSBE [description] => General tag for school-wide information, events and news [weight] => 0 ) ) 

on a page that has the term "WSBE" which is tid 90. What I want to do is extract just the tid value and pass it to a view that will then display in the block, perhaps using something like:

[view:news_headlines==taxonomy_node_get_terms(node_load(arg(1)))]

But it doesn't seem one can use input filters (like the insert view filter here) at the same time as PHP.

Advice welcome. If I figure it out, I'll post here.