Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if their is a solution for the following:

I have a view embedded in a page with the path "events/john". This view is embedded through the use of contemplate and views_embed function into an event content type. This view contains all events from John. In this view i have also enabled rss, but I can't get the rss path the way I want it. The rss path settings in the view forces to use the base path with % as arguments, but i want it to be relative, or I should say, to read the current url and put the "/rss" behind it.

Is there any way to read/get the current url of the page the view is embedded in, and use that as a base path so i can get the rss path to be "events/john/rss" ??

Thanks!

Max

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

AS part of your embedding, you can:

$view->override_path = $_GET['q']

Though this gets a little tricky with arguments since it'll try to append those to the path.

If you're using views_embed_view() you'll need to do what the function does, since you just give views_embed_view() a view name, not a full view object. But the funciton is quite short; just take what it does, insert the line of code above after the view's been loaded and it should work.

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tezalsec CreditAttribution: tezalsec commented

Thanks so much for your reply. I have been trying to do this, but i can't seem to get it working.

When there is no view object used in the views_embed_view function, how can the url parameter then be loaded into it?

As an alternative I have also been trying to use the views_get_view function to load it into the view object, through the use of

$view1 = views_get_view('events_personal','default', $UID);
$view1->override_path = $_GET['q'];
$viewsoutput = $view1->preview();
print $viewsoutput;

but with this the page turns WSOD. The phpcode area within contemplate doesnt seem to allow the preview() function. Am I than forced to put the code elsewhere, like in template.php or a dedicated module?

Any suggestions on how to handle this?

tezalsec’s picture

tezalsec CreditAttribution: tezalsec commented
Status: Fixed » Active
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dawehner
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CreditAttribution: dawehner commented 
$view1 = views_get_view('events_personal','default');
$args = array($uid);
$view1->override_path = $_GET['q'];
$viewsoutput = $view1->preview($args);
print $viewsoutput;

Does this work for you?

tezalsec’s picture

tezalsec CreditAttribution: tezalsec commented

Unfortunately no, same result. I should correct myself in my earlier post, it doesn't go WSOD, it shows only a white screen with one example record as seen in the available body variables... nothing relevant or associated with the right User ID.

Any other way to accomplish this?

Thanks!

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iamjon CreditAttribution: iamjon commented
Project: Views (for Drupal 7) » Content Templates (Contemplate)
Version: 6.x-2.11 » 6.x-1.2
Component: feed displays » Code

Hi Maxim75,
Did you ever find a solution for this issue?
I spoke to dereine about this on irc and it seems to be a contemplate issue. moving issue there.

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tezalsec CreditAttribution: tezalsec commented

Hi iamjon,

unfortunately, no, i haven't. For now I have accepted the user-nid instead of the user name, hoping for a future solution. I also felt it had to be contemplate not accepting the use of necessary functions.

Another problem i have run into many times in the phpcode area within contemplate, is using the "%d" as a variable within queries to avoid sql injection, it won't save, but that is another issue.

Thanks for the feedback, hopefully it gets picked up by the contemplate maintainers.

Max