#Views drupal 7 code

There is an issue to let Drupal 7 and 8 themes implement a preprocess/process function per view as it is possible in Drupal 6, but it is in development (see issue).

Mytheme_preprocess_views_view_field(&$vars) - generic for each field Mytheme_preprocess_views_view_list(&$vars) - generic for List style views

#Views drupal 7 code

Mytheme_process_views_view(&$vars) - generic for all views My first guess was to create a desired view using UI, export it and paste the generated code into own module. Mytheme_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) - generic for all views It is no possible to specifiy a preprocess/process function for each view, leaving us with just the generic preprocess functions: It is not required anymore the existence of the template in order to execute the preprocess function. It was required the existence of the template (tpl.php) for the function to be executed. There is another way to customize a view output in PHP. Views uses Drupal preprocess and process behaviours in template.php theme file.ĭrupal 6 had a preprocess function for every possible template. Views let any theme to overwrite every level: generic, by view, by style, by field, even by any possible combination of them, giving great flexibility to themers. This structure influences how Views generates HTML output, each level correspondes to a different template.

All thanks to its powerfull API, which could be extended by other modules. Views let display query data results in different ways: blocks, pages, RSS feeds RSS, etc, called Displays, even it is possible to configure different Styles for the output like lists, tables, charts, slideshosw, etc. It is a great tool which lets us perform hard querys to de database with its UI and set how data will be shown to the end users easily. Every Drupal CMS developer has run into Views module and its templates architecture to adapt the web to the client's design requirements.Īs we said before in the previous post, Views is the most used Drupal module and has Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 versions.