By alanburke on

Try to mix CCK, 'Contemplate', Views and Insert Views modules.

I trying to create a custom CCK node that, put simply, consists of

***************
TEXT
------------
List of teasers[of a different [cck] node type].
***************

For a "once-off" page, I can create a view, that takes the node id as an argument, and generate a table view of the fields I want. This functions nicely as a teaser.

[A 'list' view doesn't seem to use the 'teasers' generated by Contemplate module, that's a seperate issue I think]

Given this view, I can create a page, using the 'Insert view' tags.

***********
TEXT
----------
[view:myview=1=10]
[view:myview=1=11]
[view:myview=1=15]
***********

And this creates the page I want.

However, I need to do this automatically.

Using CCK, I can use nodereference to reference the node I want to display as a teaser.
Using Contemplate, I can output this as a node id [nid].

But somehow, I need a way to 'process' this nid, by passing it to the custom view I created to output a teaser.

So there's the question at last!
How can I 'process' that nid?

I tried putting the 'insert view' tags in the Contemplate area, but it doesn't recognise them, and just outputs them as ordinary text.

Regards
Alan

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maybourne commented

The nodereference will only give you a nid and I think the title of the node. To load the node (for the teaser/body) you need to pass the nid to the function node_load. You can find out more about node_load on the drupal api page.

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alanburke commented

Thanks for the reply maybourne.

[I'll just mention here that I'm not much of a coder, more of a hacker at this sort of stuff, but I can sometimes figure it out!]

I figured node_load would be the way to go. I tried hacking nodereference.module to see if I could get it to spit out the teaser, but I ran into trouble.

It seems that the teaser generated by contemplate module isn't actually loaded by node_load, as far as I could tell, and when I try to output $teaser, I get nothing.
[I managed to get some of the other stuff in the array generated by node_load to print out, such as node type etc]

This could be because the node_type is a CCK type.
While I was doing some work with Views, It seemed that generating a list of teasers of a CCK node wouldn't work either...

Thats why I created the View I mentioned earlier: If I can pass the node_id to this view, I'll get the output I want.

Since I wrote the initial post, I have come a little way.

By looking at the code for the Insert_view module, I see that there is a function in the views module that does the trick for me.

If I can pass the nid I get from nodereference to views_get_view, I reckon it will work.

But I wouldn't quite know how to do this?

Where would the code to do this go?

All help appreciated!

Thanks
Alan

Drupal development and themeing, Galway, Ireland

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alanburke commented

Getting closer.

From doing some more research, I can put this function views_build_view into my template file for the content type [or via contemplate].

I found this here http://drupal.org/node/47417.

However, I ran into the same problem as the last poster on that thread.
Try as I might, I still get the error

Only variables can be passed by reference in C:\drupal\themes\CONTRIB\clementine\node-content-golf_course.tpl.php on line 38
>/code>

Any suggested on how to call the view while avoiding this error?

Alan

Drupal development and themeing, Galway, Ireland

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Ian Ward commented

Hi Alan,

Maybe you're nesting a views_get_view inside your views_build_view like this:

$limit = 5;
$args = arg(1);
$type = 'block';
$output = views_build_view($type, views_get_view('viewname'), array($args), FALSE, $limit);
// see views_get_view('vewname')
return $output;

If this is the case, try pulling it out, defining it in a variable, and then using the variable like this:

$limit = 5;
$args = arg(1);
$view = views_get_view('viewname'); // turn it into a variable here
$type = 'block';

$output = views_build_view($type, $view, array($args), FALSE, $limit);
// $view is the views_get_view('viewname')

return $output;

Hopefully this helps. Your version of PHP may determine whether or not you can do the first one.

Ian

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alanburke commented

I had actually managed to do this a while back, in the exact same manner.
[ but I figured it wasn't good coding practice, it really felt like a bad hack, I don't know why!]

Shame on me for not posting my results anyway, given that it does work...

Thanks Ian,
Alan

Drupal development and themeing, Galway, Ireland

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Ian Ward commented

Just noting, there is now the http://drupal.org/project/viewfield module which helps w/ showing a view in a cck node type.

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