Views Index (A-Z Grouping)
Last modified: November 3, 2009 - 06:44
There have been many support requests and forum topics about creating an index page with views although there seems to be little information on how to achieve it.
It is relatively simple when you know how, and using using grid formatting and grouping we'll build an index page that will look sort of like this:
A
Node Title | Node Title | Node Title
B
Node Title | Node Title | Node Title
...The view export below will display all nodes in the above fashion. Once you have imported this view create a new php file in your current theme folder:
views-view-field--index--title.tpl.php (don't forget to clear cache)
<?php
print strtoupper($output[0]);
?>$view = new view;
$view->name = 'index';
$view->description = '';
$view->tag = '';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
'title' => array(
'label' => '',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '1',
'word_boundary' => 0,
'ellipsis' => 0,
'strip_tags' => 0,
'html' => 0,
),
'link_to_node' => 0,
'exclude' => 1,
'id' => 'title',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'title',
'relationship' => 'none',
'override' => array(
'button' => 'Override',
),
),
'title_1' => array(
'label' => '',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'strip_tags' => 0,
'html' => 0,
),
'link_to_node' => 1,
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'title_1',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'title',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'created' => array(
'label' => '',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'strip_tags' => 0,
'html' => 0,
),
'date_format' => 'time ago',
'custom_date_format' => '',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'created',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'created',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'type' => array(
'label' => '',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'strip_tags' => 0,
'html' => 0,
),
'link_to_node' => 0,
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'type',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'type',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'name' => array(
'label' => '',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'strip_tags' => 0,
'html' => 0,
),
'link_to_user' => 1,
'overwrite_anonymous' => 0,
'anonymous_text' => '',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'name',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'name',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
'title' => array(
'order' => 'ASC',
'id' => 'title',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'title',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
'status' => array(
'operator' => '=',
'value' => '1',
'group' => '0',
'exposed' => FALSE,
'expose' => array(
'operator' => FALSE,
'label' => '',
),
'id' => 'status',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'status',
'override' => array(
'button' => 'Override',
),
'relationship' => 'none',
),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('title', 'Index');
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 0);
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'grid');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
'grouping' => 'title',
'columns' => '4',
'alignment' => 'horizontal',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'views-index');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
));