[support] views (menu-items for views) available on certain conditions

[Larry Garfield]

On Monday 12 March 2007 2:53 pm, Earl Miles wrote:
> Bèr Kessels wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a view (table listing certain nodes) wich appears on
> > /node/123/applications its path is /node/$arg/applications
> >
> > if $node 123 is of type Foo, the page /node/123/applications makes sense,
> > for all other types it does not.
> >
> > I would like to know if I can make that view 'active' or accessible, or
> > appear as a tab, for only the node types where $node->type of 132 is
> > 'Foo'. An alternative could be to not show the menu-item if the view is
> > empty.
> >
> > Note, that I am not looking at filters or arguments. Filters and
> > arguments only define what nodes appear in the table on the
> > /node/123/applications, they don't dictate wether the view is available.
> >
> > Its for Drupal 4.7.
>
> You need to uncheck 'page' and create the menu item yourself. I think the
> userreview module does something like this.
>
> In the dev version of Drupal 5 I've expanded the $arg functionality, but I
> didn't backport that work to 4.7.

It actually doesn't matter if you check page or not, as long as you don't 
create a menu item from the view itself.  The code I use for the custom menu 
entry is something like this (needs to be in !$may_cache):

if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
  $node = node_load(arg(1));
  if ('page' == $node->type) {
    $items[] = array(
      'path' => "node/{$node->nid}/foo",
      'title' => t(Foos'),
      'callback' => 'views_view_page',
      'callback arguments' => array('viewname', $node->nid),
      'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
    );
  }
}

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