By deepak_mishra on

Hi,

I am new to Drupal so please explain me a contextual filters in a layman language
and also a difference between a contextual filters and standard filters

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bigwebfoundry’s picture

bigwebfoundry commented

Contextual filters was introduced in Drupal 7 Views, it was known as "Arguments" in drupal 6.
here are difference between contextual filters and standard filters:

1) Standard Filters are mostly fixed value of any field (allowed certain dynamic behavior on field setting )
while
contextual filters are mostly dynamic values taken from URL and other contexts like USER, taxonomy terms etc.

please see this for more information:
http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/78071/can-someone-explain-how-...

Shashwat Purav’s picture

Shashwat Purav commented

Please check simple example of contextual filter below, this might help.

Using Views Contextual Filters to Create a Related Content Block With Drupal 7

Thank You,
Shashwat Purav