• Get the result of a view.

*

Parameters

string $name:

• The name of the view to retrieve the data from.
• @param string $display_id
• The display id. On the edit page for the view in question, you'll find
• a list of displays at the left side of the control area. "Defaults"
• will be at the top of that list. Hover your cursor over the name of the
• display you want to use. An URL will appear in the status bar of your
• browser. This is usually at the bottom of the window, in the chrome.
• Everything after #views-tab- is the display ID, e.g. page_1.

...: Any additional parameters will be passed as arguments.

• @return
• array
• An array containing an object for each view item.

File

./views.module, line 1623

Primarily Drupal hooks and global API functions to manipulate views.

Code

function views_get_view_result($name, $display_id = NULL) {
  $args = func_get_args();
  array_shift($args); // remove $name
  if (count($args)) {
    array_shift($args); // remove $display_id
  }

  $view = views_get_view($name);
  if (is_object($view)) {
    if (is_array($args)) {
      $view->set_arguments($args);
    }
    if (is_string($display_id)) {
      $view->set_display($display_id);
    }
    else {
      $view->init_display();
    }
    $view->pre_execute();
    $view->execute();
    return $view->result;
  }
  else {
    return array();
  }
}

function views_get_view($name, $reset = FALSE) {
  if ($reset) {
    $cache = &drupal_static('ctools_export_load_object');
    if (isset($cache['views_view'][$name])) {
      unset($cache['views_view'][$name]);
    }
  }

  ctools_include('export');
  $view = ctools_export_crud_load('views_view', $name);
  if ($view) {
    $view->update();
    return $view->clone_view();
  }
}

<?php
 $view->pre_execute() 
?>

<?php
 $view->execute(); 
?>

<?php
  $view = views_get_view('view_name');
  $view->set_display('view_block_name');
  $view->set_arguments(array($tid));
  // change the amount of items to show
  $view->set_items_per_page(4);
  $view->pre_execute();
  $view->execute();
  print $view->render();
?>