Last updated March 8, 2009. Created by owahab on February 10, 2006.
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If you are investigating the use of the Views module, and would possibly like to embed content from a view into regular node content, there are a couple contributed modules that can help you out:
- The Insert View module acts as a filter in Drupal that can be enabled for various input methods.
- The Viewfield module adds on a field type for your CCK nodes, and allows you to select the desired view.
A more advanced option is to embed a View by hand with PHP. This can be done in the node edit page (if you are using an input method with the PHP evaluator filter enabled) or via PHPTemplate in your theme's .tpl.php files.
First, we would use views_get_view($view_name) to create a view object, then we'd use views_build_view($type, &$view, $args = array(), $use_pager = false, $limit = 0, $page = 0) to display it. Note: both of these functions are provided in views.module, please see that file for additional usage documentation.
Basically, all that views_build_view requires is a type value (we'll be using 'embed') and a view object. The optional variables include an array of views arguments, an option to output the view in pages, how many results to return (or how many results to return per page), and which of the returned pages to start on.
As a simple example, I can edit a node and embed a view into it with the following code:
<?php
//load the view by name
$view = views_get_view('sample_view');
//output the view
print views_build_view('embed', $view);
?>As a more complex example, let's assume that I want to embed a view on all nodes of a specific type but have different results returned based on the node's title. One way to do this would be to place the following code in your node-type.tpl.php file:
<?php
//load the view by name
$view = views_get_view('faq_topics');
//output the top three items in the view with the node title as an argument
print views_build_view('embed', $view, array($title), false, 3);
?>You can also build a view in different ways:
- page
- Produce output as a page, sent through theme. The only real difference between this and block is that a page uses drupal_set_title to change the page title.
- block
- Produce output as a block, sent through theme.
- embed
- Use this if you want to embed a view onto another page and don't want any block or page specific things to happen to it.
- result
- Return an $info array. The array contains:
- query: The actual query ran.
- countquery: The count query that would be run if limiting was required.
- summary: True if an argument was missing and a summary was generated.
- level: What level the missing argument was at.
- result: Database object you can use db_fetch_object on.
- items
- Return info array as above, except instead of result, items: An array of objects containing the results of the query.
- queries
- Returns an array, summarizing the queries, but does not run them.
Comments
comparison of 3 methods
The two modules provide slightly different methods for admins to allow a user with node-edit permission to select any view to include in their node as content.
yet another method
The Innovating Tomorrow blog had a post recently about yet another method, using the theme() function.
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Drupal 6 Theming Cheat Sheet
Embed view in Drupal 6
http://drupal.org/node/246742
Viatcheslav Joukov
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I embed that way for term related node on taxonomy/term paths
function smart_blockview($myview, $mylimit, $mytype, $mytitle) {
// $myview is the view name
// $mylimit is the number of items
// $mytype can be block, page or embed
// $mytitle is the block title we declare here because we want it to print only view exists
// GET_TERM_ID_FORVIEWS
$termcheck = strstr($_GET['q'], 'term/');
$termID = str_replace('term/','', $termcheck);
if (is_numeric($termID)) {
$view_name = $myview; //name of view
$view = views_get_view($view_name);
if ($view) {
//GETVIEW
$title = $mytitle; // title of the block
$limit = $mylimit; // number of returns
$type = $mytype; // number of returns
$view_args = array($termID);
// PRINTVIEW
$output = '<div id="smart_blockview_'. $view_name .'">';
$output = '<h2 class="view_block_title">';
$output .= $title;
$output .= "</h2>\n";
$output .= views_build_view($type, $view, $view_args, FALSE, $limit);
$output .= "</div>\n";
return $output;
} /* end if view */
} /* end if is_numeric */
}
for template php.. change mytheme with your theme name
then
<?phpecho smart_blockview(featured_product, 2, block, 'Featured Product');
?>
create block and add function call from php input
...
well.. and thats the view you create
$view = new stdClass();$view->name = 'featured_product';
$view->description = '';
$view->access = array (
);
$view->view_args_php = '';
$view->page = FALSE;
$view->page_title = '';
$view->page_header = '';
$view->page_header_format = '3';
$view->page_footer = '';
$view->page_footer_format = '3';
$view->page_empty = '';
$view->page_empty_format = '3';
$view->page_type = 'node';
$view->url = '';
$view->use_pager = TRUE;
$view->nodes_per_page = '30';
$view->block = TRUE;
$view->block_title = '';
$view->block_header = '';
$view->block_header_format = '3';
$view->block_footer = '';
$view->block_footer_format = '3';
$view->block_empty = '';
$view->block_empty_format = '3';
$view->block_type = 'node';
$view->nodes_per_block = '5';
$view->block_more = FALSE;
$view->block_use_page_header = FALSE;
$view->block_use_page_footer = FALSE;
$view->block_use_page_empty = FALSE;
$view->sort = array (
);
$view->argument = array (
array (
'type' => 'taxid',
'argdefault' => '1',
'title' => '%1',
'options' => '1',
'wildcard' => '',
'wildcard_substitution' => '',
),
);
$view->field = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'title',
'label' => '',
'handler' => 'views_handler_field_nodelink',
'options' => 'link',
),
);
$view->filter = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'uc_products',
'field' => 'is_product',
'operator' => '=',
'options' => '',
'value' => '1',
),
);
$view->exposed_filter = array (
);
$view->requires = array(node, uc_products);
$views[$view->name] = $view;
Have Fun! :)
I get an error with this PHP code
<?php//load the view by name
$view = views_get_view('sample_view');
//output the view
print views_build_view('embed', $view);
?>
Fatal error: Call to undefined function views_build_view() blah blah blah \includes\common.inc(1685) : eval()'d code on line 5
Sorry about this post the answer was above
My bad, I was running 6 and didn't read the posts above. I apologize and will go back to the corner, where's my dunce cap.
<?php$view = views_get_view('viewname');
print $view->execute_display('default', $args);
?>
merlinofchaos: Never use execute_display() to embed a view.
http://drupal.org/node/246742#comment-968476
Embed view in a node in Drupal 7
This is how you do it in Drupal 7
<?php echo views_embed_view('view-name', $display_id = 'display-name') ?>"display-name" is the name of the particular display from that view you want to embed.
An example would be:
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Where do you put this in Drupal 7?
So where do you stick this PHP code in Drupal 7? In a custom module? Theme? Or some hidden PHP snippet?
In the template
In the template
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Needs more work
Can you be more specific?
I am a newbie and i've been looking for the last 2 days at a way to generate a dynamic view.
What i want to accomplish: From a category view page where i have all my articles displayed, when the user clicks on one of the articles, instead of going to the article node, to take him to a custom article view.
Where i am today: Till now i thought that it has to be someway that from the category view to get a dynamic generated article view but i can't find:
How you can help me:
Many thanks.