We use the Views UI a lot to create custom pages, blocks, etc. Sometimes it does not give us exactly what we want and we would like to modify the generated sql query. It's possible to achieve this through the 'views_query_alter' hook.
Displaying hierarchical content is a common request of database-driven web sites. Drupal gives you great flexibility in doing this without writing a single line of code, using a couple of battle-tested modules.
The Taxonomy Lineage module adds a table to the taxonomy database which allows nodes to be sorted by taxonomy hierarchy. The module adds no new sort function by itself, so simply adding this module will not add functionality. However, it can be used with
This module is simply a grouping of plugins and default views for Views, making it easier to integrate things that may be useful to many people, but should not necessarily be distributed with Views itself.
Since Drupal is headed toward doing as much as possible with CCK and Views, I wanted to try to create a photo gallery using CCK and Views, rather than Image Module (with the included Image Gallery). I also wanted to use Imagecache, which allows for automa
In addition to the arguments that Views supplies natively, you can also insert your own custom argument handling code using PHP.