Hi Folks,
Curious how best to skin this cat. I'm looking to trigger a context based upon the arguments passed to a view. The view is using a page layout. The argument is a taxonomy term. The context condition is set by that taxonomy term.
Right now, I'm using a hook_views_pre_view function in a custom module. If arguments are passed to the view, I check that they represent a taxonomy term and then pass that term context_set_by_condition(). I know that there are two or three different views hooks that I could use instead of pre_view. I'm guessing that I could also write a custom argument handler in the view itself.
Thoughts? One issue that I've found with using the views hooks in a custom module:
The views hook gets called for every view on a page. I guess that's not a huge deal, but writing a condition that checks for a specific type of view before calling the context hook is a little clunky. I could hardcore the view name, but that seems fragile. Or, I could look just for views that receive arguments and are using a page display - but the $view object stores the display in a funky spot, and it just feels clunky.
Cheers,
Sean Larkin
ThinkShout.com
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context_contrib, which is
context_contrib, which is responsible for setting contexts based on views, uses hook_views_pre_view, so if you're using that, I think you're good.
<?php/**
* Implementation of hook_views_pre_view().
*/
function context_contrib_views_pre_view($view, $args) {
switch ($view->display_handler->display->display_plugin) {
case 'page':
case 'calendar':
context_set_by_condition('views', $view->name);
// Set any contexts associated with the current display
if (!empty($view->current_display)) {
context_set_by_condition('views', "{$view->name}:{$view->current_display}");
}
break;
}
}
?>
However, if you also define a context for that view (independent of arguments passed) you may run into module weighting issues with that, since context only allows one context to be set for a given namespace/attribute combination, so whichever gets called first will be your context.
As always, you rock J
As always, you rock J Dawg.
TY,
S
Oh, and can I second Grant's
Oh, and can I second Grant's request that you present on Context at the DUG very soon?
-s