Recipe 22: Reviewing Default Views code

Note

Ingredients

Fieldsets table from the beginning of this chapter

Views Worksheet from Recipe 10

Host access to the views_statistics.inc file

popular_recent view, loaded in the browser

Statistics module, enabled

Optional: MySQL access

In this recipe we'll pull back the curtain and examine the code behind the default views. We will not make any edits, we're just looking.

1. Open the existing popular_recent view at: http://YOURSITE.com/admin/build/views/popular_recent/edit

   Recall from Recipes 14 and 15 that the statistics module must be enabled for this view to appear.

2. Log in to your server, and open the views_statistics.inc file found in the <DRUPALROOT>/sites/all/modules/views/modules directory. (Depending on your site configuration, it may also be found in <DRUPALROOT>/sites/default/modules/views/modules.

   <DRUPALROOT> is shorthand for your Drupal install location, which may be a path such as /home/yourname/public_html.)

3. Find the statistics_views_default_views...