Comments on: Expose database fields to views in a custom drupal module

By: MD

MD — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:27:18 +0000

Hi, i’m looking for a way to have a view sort data, but have te filter only give filtering options that have at least one positive result.
For instance: sort cars according to year, in a list that is constantly evolving (cars added, cars deleted) . There are 200 cars from different years. So instead of putting all the years from 1940 to 2010 in the filter, with a good chance a lot of years will show an empty result when filtered (ie. there is no car in the system from 1973, so 1973 should not be an option in the filter), the filter should know what years to show (only those that give a positive result).

Is what you describe in the article something that could do that? If not, any idea where i could find that info?

By: Stalski

Stalski — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:21:40 +0000

By: ac

ac — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:55:06 +0000

Is this for “Views” or “Views 2″?? As of late 2008 (this article date), Views 1 was still in common use. I guess I’ll just have to try the code and see if it works under Views 2 (but if there’s a problem, I won’t know if it’s my fault or if it was Views 1 code..)

Otherwise, good article. We could all use more tutorials on Views handlers.

By: local

local — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:52:37 +0000

this is simple and good. but you did not explain how we can show a custom field in views, this article explain how we can show a custom table in views, example of usage custom field was cck jalali date field