By jmunning on

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to figure out how to override a private function in the views module without hacking. The function in question is:

function _views_load_view($arg) {}

So I tried creating a custom module (custom.module) that called:

function _custom_load_view($arg) {}

to override. I assigned the modules weight to be -99 in the db but no luck.

Is this the correct procedure or does this only work for themeable functions?

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gpk commented

Generally speaking you can't override any old function at whim. For themeable functions - yes you can, and the various hooks provided by core and contrib modules also let you override and customize default behaviors.

I'm not clear why you'd want to override views_load_view() anyway. Perhaps if you explain what you are trying to do someone will be able to advise, though Views 5.x is pretty unloved these days :P

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jmunning commented

OK thanks, I was wondering about that. Well, what I am trying to do is add a property to the views object. Specifically, I would like the exposed filters to only show the terms that are highlighted in the "Value" column of the "Fields" section of the view. I have accomplished this by hacking the views module to add the field to the object but want to find a better way to do it.

Here is what I am doing now -- adding a new db query and storing the result in an array called 'selected_values':

 $result = db_query("SELECT * FROM {view_exposed_filter} WHERE vid = $view->vid ORDER BY position ASC");

  $view->exposed_filter = array();
  while ($arg = db_fetch_array($result)) {
    $arg['id'] = $arg['field'];
	$argid = $arg['id'];
	$query = "SELECT value FROM {view_filter} WHERE vid = $view->vid AND field = \"$argid\"";
	$newresult = db_query($query);
	//echo ($query);
	$arg['selected_values'] = mysql_fetch_row($newresult);
	//dsm($arg);
	$view->exposed_filter[] = $arg;
  }

What is the Drupal way to add a field/property to the views object for use in template.php?

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gpk commented

I think this behavior maybe comes out of the box with 6.x (Views 2). You might not be too worried about hacking Views 5.x (Views 1) since I suspect it won't ever be getting any more updates. In 6.x there is probably a Views hook to manipulate the $view object. I have a feeling that in 5.x you can do this via PHP code for default arguments. Have a look at the docs on this site, you should find something. But for the reason above, I'm not sure it's really worth it.

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