Using Views and PHP snippets together

Individually, both the Views and PHP snippets let us do some amazing things; when used together, we have even more options. In this section, we will cover one technique that uses a snippet to pass arguments to a view. This technique can be adapted to different contexts to provide some very powerful methods of creating dynamic navigation paths through content.

This can be very useful when tracking posts in a site that uses Organic Groups. In our example, we will create a view that takes two arguments: the group ID and the user ID. These two arguments will allow us to display all of the posts created by a specific user in a specific group.

Our PHP snippet will display a list of groups to which the currently logged in user belongs. The membership of each group will also be listed and clicking on a username will pass the arguments—the group ID and the user ID—to the view.

Creating the view

To create this view, we will clone the Tracker view that ships with the...