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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

Summary


We started this chapter exploring two ways to identify themeable functions on your site. First, we created a hyperlinked reference page, then we tracked the source names of themeable functions in the HTML source code.

We looked at a variety of approaches to control view appearance: CSS, theme overrides, template files, small custom modules, and the Views Theme Wizard.

Along the way, we were exposed to helpful code snippets for examining the contents of variables. Debugging code may be placed inside a view, inside a module, or inside various files that make up the theme.

We looked at ways to theme individual content types and individual views or view types. We spent a good deal of time looking at theme_pager and theme_views_view, exploring the use of the theme() function.

We had a chance to work with simplefeed, panels, a views carousel, and two ways to place views in tabs. We focused on the datestamp format for the CCK Date field, which eases special formatting for theming applications...

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