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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 15: All-time Popular, and Recent popular Blocks—removing the hit count


Note

Ingredients

Statistics module, and Count content views enabled, as in Recipe 14.

In this recipe, we place the statistics blocks on the page. We will explore a theming modification, and explain why the theme function is necessary. We also note an alternative to using these views-created blocks to view popular content.

Adding the blocks to a region

  1. Override the popular_recent and popular_alltime default views. Overriding a block is covered in Recipe 11 (to review: simply add the default view, and save). This has the effect of also enabling the view, so you do not need to explicitly click on Enable.

  2. Go to the Block configuration page. Add popular_recent and popular_alltime to the regions of your choice, and click on Save blocks (it's becoming increasingly fashionable to use footers for blocks such as these, though sidebars are still common). Each block include the node titles, followed by the hit or read count in...