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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

Chapter 2. Working with Default Views

Right out of the box, the Drupal Views module provides six pre-made "default" views that you can rapidly incorporate into your site. While serving your site, the default views can also serve as a valuable learning resource, providing keys to understanding a number of advanced Views features. Using default views as examples we will have the chance in this chapter to introduce all but one of the primary Views fieldsets.

With only core Drupal and Views installed, you will initially see just four default views. There are displayed at the bottom of the page at http://YOURSITE.com/admin/build/views.

Two more default views become available when you enable the core Statistics module.

Default views are created in code (by contrast, most views reside in the views tables in the Drupal database). Any contributed module may create one or more default views. Appendix A contains a list of close to 200 default views from sixty contributed Drupal 5 modules.

For the default...

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