Thank you Steve,

I've looked into the theming of the fields, and I have copied a new:

"view-view-fields.tpl.php"

file to my theme folder.

I can get it to react, but I am lacking some basic PHP wisdom.

I want to make a conditional statement, so that if the "title" property of the field is empty, don't display anything. My problem is I can't see how to access the title.

This is definitely wrong [line 2 is the important one], but here is how I am trying it:

<?php if ( $field->class == "field-pdf-fid" ): ?> <?php if ( $field->title != "" ): ?>

<<?php print $field->inline_html;?> class="views-field-<?php print $field->class; ?>"> <?php if ($field->label): ?> <label class="views-label-<?php print $field->class; ?>"> <?php print $field->label; ?>: </label> <?php endif; ?> <?php // $field->element_type is either SPAN or DIV depending upon whether or not // the field is a 'block' element type or 'inline' element type. ?> <<?php print $field->element_type; ?> class="field-content"><?php print $field->content; ?></<?php print $field->element_type; ?>> </<?php print $field->inline_html;?>>

<?php endif; ?> <?php endif; ?>

Thanks a bunch Steve!

p.s. I can't see how to combine && and || conditionals or 'else' statements in PHP code written like this without throwing a huge error. I'm used to seeing PHP code written more as a flow without constant <?PHP : ?> breaks... anyways, not critical for now as I can work around it, but it is bugging me. Also, isn't the "->" an assignment operation? It's use here baffles me... Yes: I'm a wee green newbie php person, sigh.

Kind,

Sebastian.

Steve Ringwood wrote:

If this is for views 2 you can provide a template file that over rides the theming for that field, click "information" (next to "Theme" in "Basic settings" column) for the file name(s) you can use. _______________________________________________ themes mailing list themes@drupal.org http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the link,

I've been trussing about for a few hours, but I can't get anything meaningful to output.

I added:

<?php print '<pre>' . htmlentities(print_r($rows, 1)) . '</pre>'; ?>

To the views-view.tpl.php and got this output:

Array ( [0] => template_file [1] => variables [2] => template_files [3] => view [4] => zebra [5] => id [6] => directory [7] => is_admin [8] => is_front [9] => logged_in [10] => db_is_active [11] => user [12] => rows [13] => css_name [14] => name [15] => display_id [16] => empty [17] => exposed [18] => header [19] => footer [20] => more [21] => feed_icon [22] => attachment_before [23] => attachment_after [24] => pager [25] => admin_links_raw [26] => admin_links [27] => dom_id )

Which doesn't really help me [i think], unless I am expected to dig into each level from here??

If I look at the comments in the Views->theme->information->views-view.tpl.php

I see no change to the comments written there, though I do see the above Array stuff re-printed to the comments area.

If I put the above code instead into: views-view-fields.tpl.php

Then I get no output change when I run the page [strage?] and if i look at Views->theme->information->views-view-fields.tpl.php or at views-view.tpl.php I see no change to the comments at the top, nor any output at the bottom [ie no change at all]

Am I putting it in the wrong file?

If I try add be 'smart' and add:

<?php print '<pre>' . htmlentities(print_r($fields, 1)) . '</pre>';

?>

To the bottom of the: views-view-fields.tpl.php file, I break the page... [get a 100% "white" page]

Sigh, Still trying to figure out how I can simply identify variables... :P

Thanks!

Sebastian.

Ivan Boothe wrote:

Sebastian,

You'll probably need to do this through views template. Here's the handbook page on this theming:

http://drupal.org/node/352970

Basically you'll want to target that field with a template and put in conditional code or otherwise change the tags surrounding the field output.

(If you have any questions after reading the handbook page let me know, as I wrote a lot of what is there and I'm looking for ways to improve anything that's unclear.)

--ivan

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On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:56 PM, sebastian wrote:

...

Hello listers,

Hope this is the right place to ask this question.

I am building a theme and I have little icons that I want to have appearing when there is a 'File - CCK' field present.

The field is optional in the content-type. I have created a view for the page that shows the content, and when the file-cck field is empty, it still shows all the surrounding <div> and <a href> tags, which triggers my CSS and then I still show the little custom PDF icon; only I want it to be blank.

When I click on the View for the field: file-cck (generic files)

I only see the options:

• Exclude from display
• Rewrite output field
• Output this field as a link
• Trim to max length
• Link this to its node
• Label [none/drop down]
• Format [generic files]

I can't see from this list any way to have it be conditional; ie: only display Field formatting [Div+a href] if there is actually any data present.

Thanks for your help, hopefully this is an easy one. :)

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