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views.module

Version

1.252 (checked in on 2008/04/12 at 20:49:41 by merlinofchaos)

Description

Primarily Drupal hooks and global API functions to manipulate views.

This is the main module file for Views. The main entry points into this module are views_page() and views_block(), where it handles incoming page and block requests.

Functions

Name	Description
drupal_build_form	Views' replacement for drupal_get_form so that we can do more with less.
views_access	Determine if the given user has access to the view + display.
views_add_css	Include views .css files.
views_add_js	Include views .js files.
views_ajax	Menu callback to load a view via AJAX.
views_arg_load	Helper function for menu loading. This will automatically be called in order to 'load' a views argument; primarily it will be used to perform validation.
views_block	Implementation of hook_block
views_css_safe	Prepare the specified string for use as a CSS identifier.
views_date_sql_extract	Helper function to create cross-database SQL date extraction.
views_date_sql_field	Helper function to create cross-database SQL dates.
views_date_sql_format	Helper function to create cross-database SQL date formatting.
views_debug	Provide debug output for Views. This relies on devel.module
views_discover_default_views	Scan all modules for default views and rebuild the default views cache.
views_exposed_form	Form builder for the exposed widgets form.
views_exposed_form_submit	Submit handler for exposed filters
views_exposed_form_validate	Validate handler for exposed filters
views_fetch_base_table_names	Fetch a list of all base tables available
views_fetch_data	Fetch Views' data from the cache
views_fetch_field_names	Fetch a list of all base tables available
views_fetch_plugin_data	Fetch the plugin data from cache.
views_fetch_plugin_names	Fetch a list of all base tables available
views_flush_caches	Implementation of hook_devel_caches().
views_get_all_views	Return an array of all views as fully loaded $view objects.
views_get_applicable_views	Return a list of all views and display IDs that have a particular setting in their display's plugin settings.
views_get_block_views	Get a list of all views and the display plugins that provide themselves to the Drupal block system. Since views can appear in this list multiple times, the return of this function is an array of arrays.
views_get_handler	Fetch a handler from the data cache.
views_get_page_views	Get a list of all views and the display plugins that provide page support to the Drupal menu system. Since views can appear in this list multiple times, the return of this function is an array of arrays.
views_get_plugin	Get a handler for a plugin
views_get_timezone	Figure out what timezone we're in; needed for some date manipulations.
views_get_view	Get a view from the database or from default views.
views_help	Implementation of hook_help().
views_include	Include views .inc files as necessary.
views_include_default_views	Load default views files on behalf of modules.
views_include_handlers	Load views files on behalf of modules.
views_invalidate_cache	Invalidate the views cache, forcing a rebuild on the next grab of table data.
views_menu	Implementation of hook_menu().
views_menu_alter	Implementation of hook_menu_alter().
views_module_include	Load views files on behalf of modules.
views_new_view	Create an empty view to work with.
views_page	Page callback entry point; requires a view and a display id, then passes control to the display handler.
views_theme	Implementation of hook_theme(). Register views theming functions.
views_theme_functions	Build a list of theme function names for use most everywhere.
views_trace
views_views_query_substitutions	Substitute current time; this works with cached queries.
vpr	Shortcut to views_debug()
vpr_trace
vsm	Debug messages
vsm_trace
_views_weight_sort