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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 94: Exploring Resources


Note

Ingredients

Web Browser

  1. Examine the following helpful web sites and bookmark (or memorize) your favorites.

    Resource Name

    URL and Comments

    Drupal Groups

    http://groups.drupal.org

    Local groups connect you with other users, the best Drupal resources of all. If you search for your state or region and don't find it a group, consider starting one.

    Drupal Modules

    http://www.drupalmodules.com

    Views Documentation

    http://drupal.org/node/109604

    Views 1.x Module Snippets

    http://drupal.org/node/47412

    Project usage overview

    http://drupal.org/project/usage

    Search for drupal.org users by name

    http://drupal.org/search/user_search

    CVS messages

    http://drupal.org/project/cvs/38878 or:

    http://drupal.org/cvs?nid=38878

    Views 1.7 Issue

    http://drupal.org/node/208855

    Just for Fun: Views T-shirt

    http://webdesignshirts.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/Article/Index/article/The-Answer-Is-Views-3560257

    "I don't know the question. But the answer is Views."