Use [#nid] filter output for "Recent issues" block
dww - May 5, 2009 - 23:33
| Project: | Project issue tracking |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Views integration |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I just had a slick idea to make the new #22402: Recent issues block on project nodes more useful. However, I don't know how to best implement it. ;)
Basically, instead of just outputting the title as a link, it'd be slick if it could output [#nid] and let the issue filter do all the fancy stuff it already does (color coding, strike-through, mouse-over, etc). Knowing it wasn't going to work, I tried the new "rewrite the output of this field" stuff, and of course, I just ended up with [#nid] not the desired filter output. ;)
I suppose I could write another custom field handler for issue titles to do this, but that seems a little lame.
Hopefully I can strategize with Earl about this and figure out a reasonable way to solve this...
#1
I suppose I could implement some kind of a hook to allow you to add filtering to the field output.
#2
Auto-generating text and invoking the filter system on it doesn't sound like a good idea.
Instead, I'd suggest to make the filter simply expose a public, re-usable function.
The regular, current input is
[#nid]and the filter process callback is
<?phpfunction project_issue_filter_process($text) { // Sorry, D6 is soo old ;)
preg_match_all('...', $text, $matches);
foreach ($matches as $match) {
$replace[$match[0]] = project_issue_filter_convert($match[1], $match[2]);
}
...
return $text;
}
?>
so the filter's process helper callback takes
<?phpfunction project_issue_filter_convert($nid, $comment = NULL) {
$output = ...
return $output;
}
?>
Hence, you can do a Views field handler that takes the 'nid' (actually, an arbitrary nid), passes it through the helper, and returns the result.