By Sewdn on

Hi,

I have a basic Drupal question; at least i *think* it's trivial...

What I want to do:
I want to use tooltips in certain blocks, that show teaser-lists of my nodes.
In these blocks i use a view that only shows the thumbnail of the node.
In the tooltips i want to show the title, description and author of the node.

For being able to use the title and other properties of my node, I need to include these fields in the construction of my view.
But the standard way of showing these fields is to include the field in its own div.
Instead i want to use these fields to construct the 'title' attribute of the img field...

How to do this in Drupal (5.x)?

Thanks a lot!

Greetings, Pieter

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Jeff Burnz commented

Over ride the views output by themeimg the view: http://drupal.org/node/128741 for a primer.

You can modify the html in the views-list-my_view.tpl.php file anyway you want (including removing all the labels...).

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Sewdn commented

Thanks!

This tutorial put me in the right direction.

I have another related question though... how to construct the node's link in these custom views?
In my previous node-list-block, every item in the list links to the page that displays the entire node. But i don't find how to construct these links in my custom themed view.

I tried to 'attach' the path to the node, by adding the field 'node: Link to node' and 'node:view link', but both don't seem to be included in the 'node'-object $node.

I also tried to construct the path manually by concatenating: base_path(), the section that the node was categorized in and the name of the node.
But i can't seem to find the actual name of my nodes (i have the id, and i have the title, but the name is contructed by the path module, to have nice readable urls).

How to find the path to my nodes?

Thanks

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Jeff Burnz commented

Ok, as far as I can remember, node: view link is a way of having a customized "Read more" type of message where you place some text (e.g. "Read more...") in the Options field.

Why cant you just use node: title as link?

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Sewdn commented

I want to link to the node when a user clicks on the thumbnail.
I need the path tho the actual page of the node to construct the link.

The site i'm talking about:
http://www.elsibel.com

the link of a node:
http://www.elsibel.com/post/see/revolutionaire-gadgets

so the path is constructed as follows:
- post
- section the node was posted in
- the name of the node (using the pathauto module)

I can't seem to retreive the complete path from the $node object
I can't construct the path, because i can't find the name of the node, that pathauto provided for the node...

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Jeff Burnz commented

What image modules are you using? Isnt there an image formatter with link? For example, if you are using imagefield and imagecache normally theres a formatter with and without link for each imagecache preset, I would think the same goes for Image module derivatives also?

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Sewdn commented

I use imagecache. And i use the 'with link' formatter, but since i constructed the node from scratch in a custom (themed) phptemplate function, i don't know how to access the link that is used by the default handler for the thumbnail 'constructor'.

This is the code i used to format the node (as a list view):

  <div style='visibility:hidden;display:none;'><?php var_dump($node) ?></div>

  <div class="view-field view-data-nid thumbMe" title='<?php print $node->node_title ?> :: by <?php print $node->users_name ?>'>

  <a href='<?php print base_path()?>post/<?php print $section ?>/<?php print $node->node_link ?>'><img src='<?php print base_path()?>files/imagecache/thumb_mini/files/thumbs/<?php print $node->node_data_field_thumbnail_field_thumbnail_title ?>'/></a>