How to quickly theme a view?

Pierre-Jean Coudert picture Pierre-Jean Coudert · Sep 17, 2008 · Viewed 91.5k times · Source

I've defined a view with the CCK and View 2 modules. I would like to quickly define a template specific to this view. Is there any tutorial or information on this? What are the files I need to modify?


Here are my findings: (Edited)

In fact, there are two ways to theme a view: the "field" way and the "node" way. In "edit View", you can choose "Row style: Node", or "Row style: Fields".

  • with the "Node" way, you can create a node-contentname.tpl.php which will be called for each node in the view. You'll have access to your cck field values with $field_name[0]['value']. (edit2) You can use node-view-viewname.tpl.php which will be only called for each node displayed from this view.
  • with the "Field" way, you add a views-view-field--viewname--field-name-value.tpl.php for each field you want to theme individually.

Thanks to previous responses, I've used the following tools :

  • In the 'Basic Settings' block, the 'Theme: Information' to see all the different templates you can modify.
  • The Devel module's "Theme developer" to quickly find the field variable names.
  • View 2 documentation, especially the "Using Theme" page.

Answer

Pierre-Jean Coudert picture Pierre-Jean Coudert · Sep 17, 2008

In fact there are two ways to theme a view : the "field" way and the "node" way. In "edit View", you can choose "Row style: Node", or "Row style: Fields".

  • with the "Node" way, you can create a node-contentname.tpl.php wich will be called for each node in the view. You'll have access to your cck field values with $field_name[0]['value']
  • with the "Field" way, you add a views-view-field--viewname--field-name-value.tpl.php for each field you want to theme individually.

Thanks to previous responses, I've used the following tools :

  • In the 'Basic Settings' block, the 'Theme: Information' to see all the different templates you can modify.
  • The Devel module's "Theme developer" to quickly find the field variable names.
  • View 2 documentation, especially the "Using Theme" page.