Drupal 5 Views Recipes

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.

Drupal 5 Views Recipes

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

Preface

Free Chapter

Introduction to Views

Recipe 1: Installing the Views module

Recipe 2: Views-related URLs on your site

Recipe 3: Creating a "Swim Groups" Page View

Recipe 4: Adding a Header to your View

Recipe 5: Adding a View to a Menu

Recipe 6: Creating a Block of Swim Groups

Recipe 7: Creating an "Admin" Role and setting Access Permissions

Recipe 8: Installing Firefox and Firebug

Recipe 9: Revealing the full extent of Views

Recipe 10: Preparing Views Worksheets

Summary

Working with Default Views

Recipe 11: Adding "Recent Comments" to your site

Recipe 12: The frontpage View

Recipe 13: Read More link

Recipe 14: All-time Popular, and Recent Popular Pages

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

Recipe 16: Taxonomy View

Recipe 17: Fixing the case of the missing Taxonomy term

Recipe 18: Empty Text, with PHP

Recipe 19: Getting to know the Tracker

Recipe 20: Making the Tracker Sortable

Recipe 21: Integrating the Tracker View with the Tracker module

Recipe 22: Reviewing Default Views code

Recipe 23: Creating a Default View

Summary

CCK and Views

Recipe 24: Addressing the Views Body Field issue

Recipe 25: Creating Website snapshots

Recipe 26: Creating a Blogroll

Recipe 27: Displaying Guitar Chords

Recipe 28: Using the Viewfield module

Recipe 29: Using the Node Reference module

Recipe 30: Relating Content types with Reverse Node Reference

Recipe 31:Embedding a View in a Theme template

Recipe 32: Displaying mini-pie charts

Summary

Dates and Calendars

Recipe 33: Understanding Date formats

Recipe 34: Block of upcoming workshops

Recipe 35: Exposed Filters

Recipe 36: Views Date Range Filter module

Recipe 37: Exposed Filter settings

Recipe 38: Summary Views

Recipe 39: Date Browser

Recipe 40: Timeline

Recipe 41: Views Popup

Recipe 42: Creating a Calendar

Recipe 43: iCal feeds

Recipe 44: Upgrade Date and Calendar modules

Summary

Views and Tools for Administrators

Recipe 45: Administration menu

Recipe 46: ModuleInfo

Recipe 47: Views UI permissions

Recipe 49: Editablefields

Recipe 50: Views Bulk Operations—Content administration

Recipe 51: Views Bulk Operations—Taxonomy assignment

Recipe 52: Views Custom Field

Recipe 53: Cron setup

Recipe 54: Formatting Views queries

Summary

Views Galore

Recipe 55: Views Fusion

Recipe 56: Views Fast Search

Recipe 57: YouTube Video Bar

Recipe 58: Views Bonus Pack Export

Recipe 59: Photo Gallery

Recipe 60: Gallery with Lightbox2 and jQuery Update

Recipe 61: Google Maps

Recipe 62: Proximity Search

Recipe 63: Views Calculations

Recipe 64: Podcasting

Recipe 65: Using the Flag module for Bookmarks

Recipe 66: Using the Flag module for various use cases

Recipe 67: Explore more Views, Galore

Summary

Theming and Layout

Recipe 68: Themeable functions reference

Recipe 69: Displaying Themeable function names in Source Code

Recipe 70: Using Panels with SimpleFeed

Recipe 71: Tweaking output with hook_link_alter

Recipe 72: Debugging

Recipe 73: Node-feed-item.tpl.php

Recipe 74: Format the Pager with CSS-only modifications

Recipe 75: Overriding the theme_pager function

Recipe 76: Understanding how Theme functions are called

Recipe 77: Override theme_views_view

Recipe 78: Total Item count

Recipe 79: Views Theme Wizard

Recipe 80: Date badge

Recipe 81: Grouped View

Recipe 82: Body classes

Recipe 83: Carousel View

Recipe 84: Views Dashboard—code approach

Recipe 85: Views Dashboard—module approach

Recipe 86: Great Online Theming resources

Summary

Navigating the Online Drupal Community

Recipe 87: Creating an issue Page Bookmark

Recipe 88: Searching the Views issue queue

Recipe 89: Posting an issue

Recipe 90: Applying a Patch

Recipe 91: Creating a Patch

Recipe 92: Installing a Search plugin for the Contributions API

Recipe 93: Using IRC—real-time technical support

Recipe 94: Exploring Resources

Summary

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

Customer Reviews

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Appendix A. Default Views in Drupal 5 Modules

We covered default views that are part of the views module in Chapter 2. We also implemented and sometimes modified default views for Audio, Calendar, Timeline, Views Bulk Operations, and Views Fast Search modules. This Appendix includes almost 175 default views.

Module Name	File Location of Default View Code	View Name
Acidfree Albums	`acidfree/views_acidfree.inc`	Album grid
		Album list
Activity Stream	`activitystream/activitystream.module`	delicious.com Activity Digg Activity Twitter Activity
Audio	`audio/views_defaults.inc`	Audio
		Random Audio
		User's Audio
		User's Audio Feed
Backlinks	`backlinks/backlinks.module`	backlinks
		What links here
Bibliography Module	`biblio/biblio.module`	Biblio
Bio	`bio/bio_views.inc`	Recent $bio_name Entries
		Recent posts
BitTorrent	`bittorrent/bt_torrent.module`	Torrent Files
		Popular Torrents
		Torrent Health
		Torrents
Buddylist	`buddylist/buddylist_views.inc`	Buddylist Content
		Buddylist
Buddylist2	`buddylist2/buddy_api/buddy_api.views.inc`	Buddylist
Calendar	`calendar/calendar_admin.inc`	Calendar
Case Tracker Work	`casetracker_work/casetracker_work.views.inc`	Work Node Work User
Competition	`competition/competition.module`	Open
		Latest Competitions
		All Competitions
		Entries List
		Competitions Entered by %1
Democracy forum	`democracy_forum/democracy_forum_views.inc`	Proposals New arguments Council Related Council
Devel	`devel/devel_node_access.module`	Nodes in the node_access table
EasyLink	`easylink/easylink.module`	EasyLink
erp	`erp/erp_invoice/erp_invoice.module`	Open invoices
		Closed invoices
		All invoices
		Open invoices to print
	`erp/erp_purchase_order/erp_purchase_order.module`	All purchase orders Closed purchase orders Open purchase orders
	`erp/erp_item/erp_item.module`	Item by category
		Item for customer
		Item nostock
		Item view
	`erp/erp_supplier/erp_supplier.module`	suppliers
	`erp/erp_job/erp_job.module`	My Open Jobs
		Open Jobs
		Closed Jobs
		Submitted Jobs
		Remote Jobs
		Quote Jobs
		Onsite Jobs
		Instore Jobs
		Followups
		Calls
		My Open Jobs by type
		Appointments
	`erp/erp_quote/erp_quote.module`	All quotes
		Closed quotes
		Open quotes
	`erp/erp_store/erp_store.module`	Stores
	`erp/erp_timesheet/erp_timesheet.module`	Timesheet all
	`erp/erp_customer/erp_customer.module`	Customer
	`erp/erp_price_list/erp_price_list.module`	Price List
	`erp/erp_cash_sale/erp_cash_sale.module`	All cash sales
	`erp/erp_payment/erp_payment.module`	All payments
Event Views	`event_views/event_views.module`	Event list (drop-down date selector)
		Event list (JavaScript date selector)
		Event list (filtered by URL arguments)
Event Webform	`event_webform/event_webform.module`	Event webform list
FeedAPI	`feedapi/feedapi_node_views/feedapi_node_views.module`	Feed items
Flag	flag/flag.views.inc	My Flagname
FooAggregator RSS aggregator	`fooaggregator/extra/fooaggregator_feed_page/fooaggregator_feed_page.module`	feed
	`fooaggregator/fooaggregator_views.inc`	News aggregator
Forward	`forward/forward.module`	Most forwarded
		Most clickthroughs
		Most Active
Gallerix	`gallerix/views.inc`	All Albums
Housing Board	`housing_board/housing_board.module`	Accepted Requests/Offers
		Browse Housing Offers and Requests
		My Offers/Requests
		Pending Requests/Offers
Job Search	`jobsearch/job.module`	My applications
		Job applications
		Seeker applications
Kaltura	`kaltura/plugins/kaltura_views/kaltura_views.module`	My Kaltura Items Most Popular Audio Most Popular Videos Most Recently Uploaded Photos Most Recently Uploaded Videos
location (API, module)	`location/contrib/location_views/location_views.module`	Location table Locations User location table
Media Portfolio	`media_portfolio/media_portfolio_views.module`	Show type Show awards Contest previous Contest current
MLS Module	`mls/mls.module`	MLS Search Result
		MLS
		MLS Listings
NGP Links	`ngplinks/ngplinks.module`	Action Item
		Upcoming Events
		On the Issues
		Latest News
		Top Stories
		Campaign Videos
Node time tracker	`node_time_tracker/node_time_tracker.module`	Time_tracker
Nodeforum	`nodeforum/nodeforum_views.inc`	forum_replies
Node gift	`nodegift/nodegift_views.module`	Gifts
Node Hierarchy	`nodehierarchy/nodehierarchy_views/nodehierarchy_views.module`	Children teasers Children list
Nodequeue	`nodequeue/nodequeue.module`	$queue->title
NodeReview	`nodereview/nodereview_views.inc`	review_list
Organic groups	`og/og_views.inc`	Recent posts in my groups
		Unread posts in my groups
		GHP ron
		My groups
		Groups directory
		Recent posts across whole site
		Search
		Recent comments
		Recent type term
OG Galleries	`og_galleries/og_galleries.module`	Galleries
Pro and Con arguments	`procon/procon_views.inc`	Arguments
Send	`send/send_views.inc`	History node
		Most Emailed
		Recently Emailed
Similar Nodes	`similarnodes/similarnodes_example.view.inc`	Similar Nodes Test
SimpleFeed	`simplefeed/simplefeed_item_views.inc`	Feeds Latest feeds Latest feeds (Block)
Smartqueues for Organic Groups	`smartqueue_og/smartqueue_og_views.inc`	OG Group
Smartqueue per User	`smartqueue_users/smartqueue_users_views.inc`	Users user
Station	`station/schedule/views_defaults.inc`	Day Schedule Programs Schedule listing Unscheduled Programs
	`station/playlist/views_defaults.inc`	Playlists
	`station/archive/views_defaults.inc`	Archive
		Program Archive
Timeline	`timeline/timeline.views.inc`	Timeline of Content
		Timeline of Events
Ubercart	`ubercart/uc_product/uc_product.module`	Products
Update status aggregator	`update_status_aggregator/update_status_aggregator.module`	Module updates
Usernode	`usernode/usernode.module`	userlist
userreview	`userreview/userreview.module`	userreview
Versus	`versus/versus.module`	Standings by Content Type
Video	`video/views_video.inc`	Recent video activity
Views	`views/modules/views_node.inc`	frontpage
	`views/modules/views_statistics.inc`	Recent popular content
		All-time popular content
	`views/modules/views_taxonomy.inc`	Taxonomy
	`views/modules/views_comment.inc`	Recent Comments
	`views/modules/views_user.inc`	Recent posts
Views Bonus Pack	`views_bonus/views_bonus_panels.module`	Panels by term
	`views_bonus/views_bonus_summary_combo.module`	Directory
	`views_bonus/views_bonus_archive.module`	Archive
	`views_bonus/views_bonus_lineage_tree.module`	tree
Views Bulk Operations	`views_bulk_operations/views_bulk_operations.module`	Content
Views Fast Search	`views_fastsearch/views_fastsearch.module`	Search
Views Mail	`views_mail/views_mail.module`	Views Mail Opt Out
Views Multiblock	`views_multiblock/views_multiblock_views.inc`	Views multiblock
Webcomic	`webcomic/webcomic_views.inc`	Strip archive
		Latest comic
		Cast of characters
Workflow Owner	`workflow_owner/workflow_owner.module`	Workflow Owner
Yet Another Gallery Module	`yagm/yagm.views.inc`	Galleries Galleries Images

Drupal 5 Views Recipes

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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

Appendix A. Default Views in Drupal 5 Modules