By Draven_Caine on

In drupal 7 you could use "views_get_view('view-name', 'view-display-name') to render a view in the theme template.

Does anyone know the way in drupal 8 to render a view in the twig template?

(My case is very simple, 2 column user profile, right column is a view of viewed user content)

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Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Not sure if uou can embed a view direcly in twig, however you can set it up in preprocess and print a variable...

function HOOK_preprocess_node(&$variables) {
  $variables['view_comments_recent'] = views_embed_view('comments_recent', 'default');
}

Then in your template, in this case node:

{{ view_comments_recent }}

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Draven_Caine commented

This would work great. Where do I put preprocess? (Still learn with the twig template system )

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

In a file named ThemeName.theme, which needs to be in the root of your theme.

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Draven_Caine commented

I am running custom theme I built so everything makes sense except how to hook the user profile vs the node.

View name: content
View display name: user_vehicle_embed

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Draven_Caine commented

This is to embed a view on the user profile.
In your .theme file add 

<?php
  function theme-name_preprocess_user(&$variables) {
    $variables['variable-name'] = views_embed_view('view-name', 'view-display-name');
  }
?>

Now go to your user.html.twig and call your variable with
{{ variable-name }}

Thanks again Jeff.

Kristi Wachter’s picture

Kristi Wachter commented

You can use Twig Tweak to get access to Views output - the Twig Tweak documentation shows simple syntax:

{{ drupal_view('who_s_new', 'block_1') }}

or more complex syntax:

{{ drupal_view('who_s_new', 'block_1', arg_1, arg_2, arg_3) }}

I hope that's helpful!

Kristi

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