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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

You're reading from   Drupal 5 Views Recipes 94 recipes to develop custom content displays for your Drupal web site

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847196965
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Drupal 5 Views Recipes
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Introduction to Views FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Default Views 3. CCK and Views 4. Dates and Calendars 5. Views and Tools for Administrators 6. Views Galore 7. Theming and Layout 8. Navigating the Online Drupal Community 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 80: Date badge


Note

Ingredients:

CCK module: http://drupal.org/project/cck

Date module: http://drupal.org/project/date

Enable Date, Date API, Date Popup, and Date Timezone modules

Node Go To module: http://drupal.org/project/nodegoto

Recipe 34

In this recipe we create little calendars, or "date badges" that display the dates of upcoming events. The badges will display in nodes, teasers, and views.

This recipe begins in a fashion similar to Recipe 34 (Block of Upcoming Workshops), with a couple of key differences:

  • Our content type will be called event, rather than workshop.

  • Our view will create a page, but not a block, and it will use the Teaser List view type, so no field selection is required.

With these differences in mind, let's proceed:

  1. Go to admin/settings/date-time, and ensure that the default time zone is set.

    Turn to Recipe 34, and replicate Steps 3-9, remembering to substitute the word event for workshop each time it appears in a URL or setting (for instance, create a Content type named...

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