Option in views to only display the number of referrers node ( count the child node of a cck node and display the number )

Good idea so need work to make more configurable

I would need this but cannot provide code.

@mansspams try code provided by @schibou

@mansspams the patch work's for me, you can try it.

installed module, applied patch (replaced file from zip to be precise), added cck field, adjusted display (no count possibility there), tested how node looks, yes, nodes that refers to one i am looking at are displayed, so far so good. but in views i cannot find NodeReferrer field under content and got stuck there. I wonder what did i do wrong.

Hum I don't know why, maybe some chages in recent versions that make it obsolete.
It was not ported into the module (since it was just a one time application), sorry it didn't work for you.

@schibou try to make a patch against current HEAD, I've made some cleanup

This feature is great! I glad to include this into upcoming release

i found the problem. i was looking under content but it is under node, so yes, @schibou patchs works and you may include it in future releases. thanks guys!

one more review?

I would really need this functionality as well, thanks for the patch.

After applying the patch the feature works properly for me. Thank you.

I'm interested in this functionality. How would I go about applying the supplied patch?

@caschbre try docs at http://drupal.org/patch/apply

Requested filter to list nodes without referrers #582034: Integrate referrer count in views2

Suppose we need filter and formatter. Filter in count expression and formatter to display counts

looks like the OP patch does not apply to nodereferrer 6.x-1.0-beta2 dated 2009-09-22

Might be that the patch doesn't work, but just copying nodereferrer_view_handler_field.inc into its place worked for me.

Thanks for this great feature. I used to make a forum with discussions with content types and views2.

I suggest you turn this feature into a separate field, enhances usability in my opinion.

Glad to commit if someone provide a patch against DRUPAL-6 but not replacing existing features

I'm afraid my php skills aren't sufficient to make a decent patch, but I'd love to help out in any way I can.

As I suggested above I'd prefer this feature in a separate handler: nodereferrer_view_handler_field_count.inc. This new handler should extend views_handler_field_numeric instead of views_handler_field since we are dealing with a numeric field.

andypost: I see that you've split up the handlers (nodereferrer_view_handler_field.inc, nodereferrer_view_handler_field_field.inc and nodereferrer_view_handler_field_type.inc), but I don't understand why? I don't know how much of the code should go into the new handler, since I don't really get what's going on in the code. Could you somehow lead me in the right direction?

Thanks
Marcus

First of all, attaching a re-roll of the patch in this issue against the latest dev, and formatting it as a "real" patch.

@marcushenningsen in #18: the problem with that approach is that you'll need to duplicate pretty much all of the current code. Right now, nodereferrer_views_handler_field deals with common nodereferrer functions (as in, actually getting referrers, formatters options, stuff like that), and then both nodereferrer_views_handler_field_field and nodereferrer_views_handler_field_type inherits from that, and just customize the options form to let you select either specific fields or specific node types.

As a class can't have more than one parent in PHP, to have a class that extends views_handler_field_numeric, you'd need to implement the nodereferrer_views_handler_field_count handler, which would be mostly a copy of nodereferrer_views_handler_field with a rewritten render query, but then you'll *also* need to reimplement both nodereferrer_view_handler_field_field_count and nodereferrer_view_handler_field_type_count to base them on that new handler class. That's quite a lot of code duplication.

Supposing its done like that though, there would be two new fields in Views Field UI, resuling in something like:

• Node: Nodereferrer: by field
• Node: Nodereferrer: count by field
• Node: Nodereferrer: by type
• Node: Nodereferrer: count by type

That might be a bit easier on the end user, but that would also be a patch a lot bigger than the one attached.

@andypost: I guess it's your call :-)

@DeFr this approach looks great! need more reviews and I glad to commit this!

I'm interested in helping to test this. Do I just install the dev version and then apply the patch?

@caschbre: Yes. After applying the patch, you'll see a new option appearing in the field setting forms, Display referrers count:, defaulting to No. Switch it to Yes and the field will then display the referrers count instead of the referrers list.

Suppose we need a new formatter for cck display not only for views and update docs

Rerolled with the count option as a field formatter instead of a view option. This approach upside is that it can be used everywhere and it doesn't add complexity to the Views field form: there's now a new option in the display as select instead, which means that you can choose to display the referrers as Node title, Node body... or Node count.

There's one downside though: Views easily let you alter the output a bit, which means the administrator can turn use this number in a sentence with one click on a case by case basis. It's not that easy in CCK land: developers will need to override the theme function, but that'll be site wide.

As it makes the code slightly prettier and it may be useful as a formatter nevertheless, I think I like this CCK field formatter approach best despite this problem though.