Add block-views-[viewname].tpl.php to template suggestions

Thats not how you should implement this! Use hook_preprocess_block and add template suggestions.

<?php
function hook_preprocess_block(&$vars) {
  list($name, $display-id) = $vars['block']->delta;
  $vars['template_suggestions'][] = 'block-'. $variables['block']->module .'-'. $name;
}
?>

My code will not work..

  list($name, $display-id) = explode('-', $vars['block']->delta);

Just an FYI, this will only work if the view name, the dash, and the display ID all add up to 32 characters or less. If longer, the delta becomes an MD5 hash because the delta isl imited to 32 characters.

Do you know a way to fix this?

I believe anything placed inthe $block array returned by hook_block() will make it to the template. We can put data in there, and use hook_preprocess_block() to add suggestions based on that data, perhaps.

Hello
Is there something new about that ? templates block name with md5 happen very often if you work on a big site with very descriptive name for the blocks.
Is there a way, playin with preprocess, to pass to the preprocess_block the name of the view ?

real name of the views is registered in the variable table
here is the snippet code i use to add a suggestion template for the realname of the views (name + display-id) for the blocks, if delta became a md5.
This go in a themename_preprocess_block() :

  $block = $vars['block'];
  $chars_delta = strlen($block->delta);
  // don't do anything if this block is not from views module or if delta < 32 chararacters
  // because md5 is always 32
  if ($block->module == 'views' && $chars_delta >= '32') {
     //get from variable table the hashes and their corresponding views name, in an associative array
     $hashes = variable_get('views_block_hashes', '');
    // add a nice new template suggestion if this delta is a hash
    if(isset($hashes[$block->delta])) {
       $vars['block_id'] = 'block-'. $block->module .'-'. $hashes[$block->delta];
       $vars['template_files'][] = $vars['block_id'];
    }
  }
  else {  
    // just set the normal block id for css
    $vars['block_id'] = 'block-'. $block->module .'-'. $block->delta;
  }

Here is a patch

doah

It works find on 6.x-3.x. Needs porting to d7.

Hi

I encountered the same problem to style a specific views block. But the weirdest thing is that the template should be in the template suggestions of core drupal 7. Check here: http://drupal.org/node/1089656

block--[region|[module|--delta]].tpl.php

But it's not working for me. Even when using some code from above to add the template suggestion in theme_preprocess_block, it doesn't work.
Any ideas for views 7.x-3.0-beta3 on drupal 7?

sub

subing

Here is a patch for d7.

It would be great if some people could test it.

+++ b/views.moduleundefined
@@ -276,6 +276,20 @@ function views_preprocess_comment(&$vars) {
+function views_preprocess_block($vars) {
+  if (!empty($vars['block']->view)) {
+    $vars['view'] = &$vars['block']->view;
+    $vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'block-view-' . $vars['view']->name;
+    if(!empty($vars['view']->current_display)) {
+      $vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'block-view-' . $vars['view']->name . '-' . $vars['view']->current_display;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 /*
  * Implement hook_permission().
  */

Does this really work? Isn't the preprocess runned after the lifetime of the view-object?

Triggering the testbot.

This works out of the box.
Just name the tpl file you need as follows:

block--views--view_machine_name.tpl.php

It does work out of the box, but the underscores should be replaced with single hyphens -
block--views--view-machine-name.tpl.php