Filtering an exposed filter should stay on current page

#156130: Exposed filters: URL processing on embeds

Reading the issue posted in #2, the Views maintainer clearly says that it is the responsibility of developers to account for the default behavior in their modules, so I'm reopening this as a feature request.

Unlike your standard Page display, an Embed Views Display is clearly intended to be embedded on other pages. It should automatically assume that any exposed filters are intended to post to the current page, rather than the home page, or some random Page display in the same view. I would like to see this handling built into the module.

For what its worth, the workaround I am currently using is the following hook_form_alter() function:

<?php
/**
* Implementation of hook_form_alter().
*/
function MY_MODULE_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'views_exposed_form' && $form['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-MY-VIEW-embed-1'){
    $form['#action'] = '/' . drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
  }
}
?>

I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but it seems to work so far. However, I'd much prefer to see this handled in Views when the display is built.

Fix available in 6.x-1.x commit 48a6802, 18bef9f.

Once it has been reviewed by another or sits here for at least a week I will add it to a release.

Available in the latest release 6.x-1.2

Current fix in version 1.2 is written as:

/**
* Implementation of hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
*/
function embed_views_form_views_exposed_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
  // Change the action of the form for all embed views.
  if ($form_state['display']->display_plugin == 'embed') {
    $form['#action'] = '/' . drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
  }
}

which doesn't work if Drupal is installed inside a sub-directory under domain root, like http://www.example.com/drupal/
Below is a modified version of form alter function to fix the problem:

/**
* Implementation of hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
*/
function embed_views_form_views_exposed_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
  // Change the action of the form for all embed views.
  if ($form_state['display']->display_plugin == 'embed') {
    $menu = menu_get_item();
    $form['#action'] = url($menu['path']);
  }
}

A similar fix to #7 has been applied to both 6.x & 7.x.

Use 6.x-1.3 or 7.x-1.1

Or apply the correct corresponding attached patch.

I'm getting the same issue for Views 6.x-3.0rc2 (Drupal 6.2.2). Glad to report your fix worked for me :)

Do you mean the views module proper?

This is an additional views display that automatically adds this capability to all embed view display types.

Did you just implement your own hook_form_views_exposed_form_alter(). If so glad that worked for you and I will close this ticket.

Otherwise, could you verify that you are using the latest release of embed views display and that you are attempting to embed and embed display.

Thanks,

Jonathan