[development] view + cck or views + form_alter

[Sean Robertson]

You can get around that using CSS.  Assuming you've placed the image in 
div#image set #news div#image img {display:none;} and then #news 
div#image {background:...}.  I've got php code that will assign and ID 
and classes to the body tag based on which page you're on if you need 
help with that part of it.



John Barreiros wrote:
> Thanks for the response Larry. I'm trying to wrap my head around your 
> solution, which for the most part makes sense. My only question is, does 
> it work if you're viewing a "view" page? For example, I navigate to the 
> "news" page which is just a view displaying the last 10 news nodes. Will 
> the sidebar block display an image?
> 
> thanks again.
> 
> On 10/4/07, *Larry Garfield* <larry at garfieldtech.com 
> <mailto:larry at garfieldtech.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Funny you should mention it.  I just got around to documenting the
>     way we
>     tackle this issue at Palantir today:
> 
>     http://drupal.org/node/180852
> 
>     As for the Views, create a node type that has nothing but a title and
>     Viewfield CCK type.  Create a node of that type and specify the View
>     to use.
>     Tada, you have a node.  Note: Doesn't work with dynamic arguments,
>     sadly. :-(
> 
>     Cheers.
> 
>     On Thursday 04 October 2007, John Barreiros wrote:
>      > Hi All.
>      >
>      > This particular site I'm building features a layout with a photo
>     in the
>      > upper right corner. The client wants to have the ability to
>     specify the
>      > image on every single page. I know I know, kind of whacked, but
>     it's what
>      > they want.
>      >
>      > So, first step was to use cck to add a new field to the "page"
>     type. I
>      > tried imagefield but didn't like how you couldn't select an
>     existing image.
>      > I managed to whip together a new cck field which uses IMCE to
>     select the
>      > image (I'll up it to cvs after some more testing and some
>     coworkers give me
>      > the thumbs up on its quality).
>      >
>      > Okay, so that takes care of any pages displaying a single node.
>      >
>      > How do I handle views? There are a few views and they obviously
>     need to
>      > have the image customizable. It'd be nice if when creating a
>     "view" to
>      > provide a page, it inherited the cck fields from the "page" type.
>      >
>      > Could I use form_alter to add the cck field to the views form?
>      >
>      > Or is there some way when the "view" is being built I can extract
>     the image
>      > from the first node and pass it to page.tpl.php?
>      >
>      > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>      > -john
> 
> 
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> 
> 

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