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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

Overview of this book

The Drupal View modules give you flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site's content. Although there are more than 100 views-enabled modules, few site administrators use Drupal Views to its full potential. This book will enable you to realize the fullest potential of this powerful resource by providing a wide variety of powerful recipes for creating and displaying a wide variety of views ñ essential classics you will use again and again to innovative display methods that will make your Drupal site stand out. Pick and choose the ones you would like to prepare for your web site. In this book you will find ninety-four recipes to create a wide selection of views. The list includes event listings, interactive calendars and timelines, maps, proximity search, podcasting, carousels, Views Fusion, and many more. You will also explore default views, views with CCK, and master a variety of ways to associate views with related content. Most people think of Views for site visitors. But Views can also be handy for site administrators. You will get to know the Views Bulk Operations module, along with Editable Fields, and Views Custom Fields. (You'll probably wonder why you never used them before!) If you want to take Views to the next level, the book contains a code-rich chapter on theming. However, you will find most of the recipes detailed by the author do not require any original coding at all. As you progress through the recipes, you will be immersed in such Drupal Views topics as fields, arguments, filters, exposed filters, sorting, style plug-ins, formatters, cloning and copying views. Because Drupal is a worldwide and ever adapting system, the author also includes great tips and resources for navigating the online Drupal community and expanding your knowledge of the recipes. Finally, there is an extensive Appendix, which includes listings of all default views, formatters and style plug-ins for Drupal 5, along with a categorized list of patches.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal 5 Views Recipes
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Default Views in Drupal 5 Modules
Formatters
Style Plugins
Views Hooks for Coders
Modules Included in Recipe Ingredients
Additional Resources and Modules Mentioned in Recipes
Selected Noteworthy Patches to Views
Index

Recipe 34: Block of upcoming workshops


Note

Ingredients

CCK module: http://drupal.org/project/cck

Date module: http://drupal.org/project/date

Enable Date, Date API, Date Popup, and Date Timezone modules

Node Go To module: http://drupal.org/project/nodegoto

This recipe is the foundation for many others in the book, including most the ones remaining in this chapter.

The Node Go To module is a little-known treasure that makes it easy to enter content. This recipe also makes use of the now option, available in the Date module.

  1. Install and enable all of the modules in the ingredients.

  2. Go to admin/settings/date-time and set the default time zone.

  3. Go to admin/content/types/add and create a content type named Workshop, of type workshop. As usual, remove the Body field in the Submission form fieldset. We'll create a workshop_description field instead.

  4. Go to admin/content/types/workshop/add_field and add a field named workshop_date. We have several field types to choose from, however, I recommend the Datestamp...