Only link to nodes if body or cck field has content?

Thanks for the update here -- starting to dig into it, but its admittedly a bit outside of my knowledge base.

If anyone has tackled a related issue and has a snippet I could use as a starting point, please let me know.

Also, generally speaking would an if statement that checks to see whether a field is NOT NULL be unusually expensive?

Thanks!

Thanks so much for this update! Using a slightly edited version of this code, I am now successfully able to create a basic row style view that has the title link to the node only when the specified CCK field is not empty.

Been pulling my hair out all last night and today, however, trying to get this to work with my specific view type... While I have learned a lot about Views/Theming today, after hours and hours on this I am still unable to get this to work just right (was really hoping I could avoid posting again). It is all admittedly a bit over my head...

My specific view is set to Style -> Table... no matter how much I try to play with this snippet in various views tpl.php, I cannot get this to work when using a Table style view.

Just as a starting point (so I don't spend the rest of the week barking up the wrong tree)

1) Will the provided snippet still be roughly accurate when I am trying to theme a specific field when the Style is set to "table" ? Or is the " (!empty($fields['body']->content))" method only relevant when editing a "row style" template (clearly my ignorance is showing)?

2) As I am after the "Title" field, will I want to be editing a base tpl.php that is for "Style output" or the "Field Node: Title (ID: title)" ?

My guess had been that I would want to add a basic if statement in a template that overrides Field Node: Title (ID: title)" (my "title" field), as this is the only template I had edited in the past... I am starting to worry, however, that I am grasping this less than anticipated.

Thanks again for all the help/patience here!

I do have the style output setup (views-view-table--VIEWNAME.tpl.php) and have confirmed that it is being picked up.

I also have confirmed that the code snippet provided works as expected when placing it towards the top of the 'fields' output when using that style, so know I am on the right track.

I cannot, however, figure out where to place the snippet in the template (views-view-table--VIEWNAME-linktest.tpl.php), or what else I may need to add in this instance to get it all to work.

Still struggling with this one -- let me know if anyone has an idea.

Thanks!

Dug into this a bit more, and was able to resolve the issue. If it is useful for anyone down the road, here is a quick summary...

As this was a Table style in question, I created the file views-view-table--YOURVIEW--page.tpl.php and added the defaults...

With the default, all content is spit out together:

<?php print $content; ?>

As we want to target a specific field, we need to print each row individually... trick was to remove "print $content" and print the desired rows out one by one:

 // see if the field in question is empty
<?php if (empty($row['MYFIELD_with_potential_content'])) {
 // if field does not have content, print only the title
print $row['title'];
} else {
 // if field has content, print title as link
print l($row['title'], 'your_url/'.$row['nid'] );} 
?> 

//then print the rest of the fields 

<?php  print $row['MYFIELD_1'];?>   
<?php  print $row['MYFIELD_2'];?>
<?php  print $row['MYFIELD_3'];?> 

You will obviously need to add css to the rows to keep the tables, but should be pretty straightforward.

Not sure if this is super DB heavy or not -- any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks again for the help!