Views

Modules : 10 Must-Have Drupal Modules for Drupal Web Developers

Each Drupal developer out there has their own list of their “must-have” modules. These modules are the tarballs (.tar) that each developer downloads and unzips immediately after installing the Drupal CMS. The following list is partially mine and partially that of my Twitter followers.

How to : How to show all nodes tagged with children terms with Views 2 for Drupal 6

Review : Drupal 6 Views Or Advanced FrontPage Module?

Exploring Drupal and all of the wonderful modules, does make things exciting. Although it is not always easy to find what you want without a little experimentation. Such was the case when it came to the template I had settled on for my site.

Since the theme is essentially a new - music type theme, I wanted to maintain that look, yet keeping it super simple. I had already installed the Advanced Frontpage module on one of my Drupal 6 sites, it was filled with static text.

Video : Creating An RSS Feed Using Views

This tutorial shows how to create an RSS feed from an existing view. See Creating A Page View From A Taxonomy to see how I created the initial page view.

Courtesy : Learnbythedrop.com

Tutorial : Displaying Views' exposed filters in a block 

Tips : Using the taxonomy term associated with a node as an argument in a view

Tips : Image Slideshow With The JW Image Rotator

Tips: How to programmatically insert a view into a tpl or content in Drupal 6

"In Drupal 6 views has been completely rewritten from the ground up, and as such we have to adjust the little code snippets that we developers have collected over the years to compensate."

The old way ( Drupal 5 views 1 ) of inserting a view into a tpl or into a php enabled content area was as follows: 

Video : New features in Views 2

 

This screencast provides a 34 minute overview of the new features that Views 2 offers.

Courtesy : Masteringdrupal.Com

Tips : Creating A Page View From A Taxonomy 

This video shows the user how to use the views module in Drupal 6 to create a page that list nodes with a certain taxonomy term. For the screencast I created a view that lists all of the nodes tagged with cck or views at http://www.learnbythedrop.com/cckandviews.