Today i would like share another module about Drupal access permission. It is called Path Access.
With the help of the Empty Page module, i could create any blank templates with different blocks. But unlike Views page, these empty pages do not have access permission settings. Luckily the Path Access module could fill the gap.
If you have enabled the Path Access module, you can configure the forbidden paths for different roles @ admin/config/people/pathaccess.
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Assume we have a Views page which does not have a contextual filter setting and the view path is /eureka. If you provide an argument in the url such as /eureka/abc, the argument is ignored and the Views page will return all view rows. But sometimes we may want to show the user a page not found instead of return all rows. This can be done by adding a Global: Null argument in the contextual filter.
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I want to show the submitted exposed filter data in the Views header/footer. This can be done by retrieving the $view object in PHP. The following code will printed the exposed filter data. Apply it to the Views header/footer with PHP enabled.
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About 2 months ago i published a post on how to get the number of nodes of a specific taxonomy term by term ID.
Drupal – Get number of nodes of Taxonomy Term by Term ID
Unfortunately, the taxonomy_term_count_nodes() no longer works in Drupal 7 but you can get the count by Views in D7.
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You can render a menu in the header/footer of a view. Add the following code to either one of them.
<?php
print theme('links', menu_navigation_links(<menu id>), array('class' => 'menu <custom-class>'));
?>
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We have talked about using Views Custom Field which really makes Views more versatile. In the custom PHP field, you can get the data of other fields from $data. But the field names under the $data may changed later as you modify the view.
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1. Go to <drupal>/admin/build/views/tools
2. Select - Any - for Label for “Any” value on optional single-select exposed filters: Continue reading
Sometimes we may want to show the number of records in a view. I found a very good snippet which serve this purpose perfectly and you can add it to either view header or footer. Continue reading
The Node Comments module let you assign you own content type as comment. For example, i have the following two content types.
In Views, we can make the exposed filter into block and therefore we can select it for Panel page. But this would not work because after the filter form submission, it will redirect to the view page rather than the current panel page.
Luckily, i found a solution to resolve the issue. Continue reading
