Views Example for Documentation

I have good news and I have bad news.

The good news is that yes you can do this.

The bad news is that the only reasonable way to do it is with a theme. Because there's a variable number of terms, it's pretty difficult to get anything other than the term that you're sorting/filtering on.

If you theme it, however, you can do load the node, or just load the terms. It's less efficient but I think the only way to do what you want.

The good news is that theming isn't hard. ASsuming phptemplate:

phptemplate_views_view_viewname($view, $type, $level, $items) {

}

Copy the code from theme_views_view() in views.module and replace the switch with the contents of views_view_table(). Then you can just add columns as you need.

Now that I'm a bit more awake I went ahead and put the function a bit more together for you.

Replace VIEWNAME with the view you want, and you can add fields to your heart's content by
adding another $cell structure to the row.

function phptemplate_views_view_VIEWNAME($view, $type, $nodes) {
  if ($view->header)
    $output = "<div class='view-header' id='view-header-$view->name'>$view->header</div>\n";

  $fields = _views_get_fields(); 

  foreach ($nodes as $node) {
    $row = array();
    // Right in here is where you'll add your own fields.
    // The fields are order dependent, but what you can do is
    // $rows[COLUMNNUMBER] = $your_cell_here;
    // then add sort($row) right before $rows[] = $row
    foreach ($view->field as $field) {
      $cell['data'] = _views_handle_field($fields, $field, $node);
      $cell['class'] = 'view-field';
      $cell['id'] = "view-field-$field[queryname]";
      $row[] = $cell;
    }
    $rows[] = $row;
  }
  $output = theme('table', $view->table_header, $rows);

  return "<div class='view' id='view-$view->name'>$output</div>\n";
}

Leaving this as active because this is a nice start for an example in the theming documentation which still needs to be written.

Changing title and parameters so that I remember what this is the when I look at my issues queue.

Using http://drupal.org/node/47845 to track the documentation now. Including a back-reference.