By Jboo on

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me out with a views problem. On my taxonomy pages I have a page view of nodes. Under the page view I wanted to add another view, either with a block view or by manually adding the view to my template file. However, I can't seem to get the fields in the view to display when I add taxonomy ID as an argument, nothing shows up. If I remove the argument the view displays so I'm sure it's a problem with the way I'm setting up arguments.

Basically, what I'm trying to achieve with the view is to display nodes from a certain content type under the taxonomy term that they belong to. This is what happens for the page view on the taxonomy term but I can't get it to work when adding a block view or view in my template.

Can anyone explain what I might be doing wrong and how to get this view to work?

Thanks for any help.

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caschbre commented

Block views don't use arguments quite the same way as a page. You still add the argument in the argument section of the view, however you need to click on it and select to provide a default argument. Then you will be presented with a few options, one of them being to use PHP. Then write a few lines to pull the term from the URL.

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Jboo commented

Thanks for the help. Does something like this look right (D6)?

function _taxonomy_get_tid_from_term($term) {
  return $term->tid;
}

If I try that it says _taxonomy_get_tid_from_term has already been declared, so obviously it's wrong but I'm a bit useless with php!

Thanks for any more help.

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caschbre commented

I have a "related news" block that is basically a view of news with the same terms as the node content. I have Taxonomy: term id as an argument that is set to pull a default from php. Here is my code:

// Pick up the node in focus (if any)
$node = menu_get_object();

// Get all the taxonomy terms for this node (if any)
$terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms($node);

// If taxonomy terms were found, return them to the view
if (! empty($terms)) {
  return implode('+', array_keys($terms)); // Return all terms found separated by +
}

// If we get to this point we found no terms and return null
return; // Nothing to see here
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Jboo commented

Thanks for your help. I'll see if I can adapt this to work on taxonomy pages. Thanks very much.

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sohanj commented

Add this code in term id argument and then select php and insert following code.

$node = node_load(arg(1));
if($node){
foreach($node->taxonomy as $term) {$terms[] = $term->tid; }
return implode('+', $terms);
} else { return; }