My that first link looks familiar... ;-)
The Views Advanced Help text includes decent information on hook_views_data(), which is the main hook you'll use. The table wizard module will also auto- generate most of that hook for you. You'll need to tweak it some to change the handlers used for each field (in some cases), but overall it should get you a very good start.
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 12:20:29 am Steve wrote:
Thanks just the direction i needed Yes it is a read-only data and i need to expose it to drupal. Do you have links of how this is implemented or the exact link of the views documentation i would appreciate. I have checked out some herehttp://www.palantir.net/blog/remote-data-drupal-museums-and-web-2009a nd herehttp://www.gregeisenman.info/blogs/greg/views-2-and-drupal-adding-cust om-field-views-querybut most are just write ups.
Thanks its time i start figuring this out
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM, larry@garfieldtech.com <
larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
CCK and webform won't really help you here. If this data is read-only, and you just want to expose it to Drupal, I'd recommend adding Views integration hooks for that table. Then you can build lists and queries against it using Views, including exposed filters that you can use as a search form.
The Views documentation has more details. I also recommend the table wizard module, which can greatly speed up the process of writing the necessary hooks.