Throughout this chapter we will explore some of the most common features of the Views module, from the basic to the advanced. Views makes it easy to create listings of your content, such as job listings or a list of products in a shop. It also allows you to set filters, and to expose those filters to the user. For example, in a listing of products in a shop, you could output a price filter, allowing users to select a price range.
Views is the most popular module on Drupal.org
due to its power and flexibility, and by the end of this chapter, I'm sure you'll see why!
We begin by creating a simple news listing view, which we then expand upon in the following chapter by making it dynamic. We then see how the Views module can be used to create custom blocks by creating a Latest news block. We then create a view with a grid view format, which demonstrates how we can configure a view to display content formatted into grids of images; we also look at how content can be outputted with...