[development] Field name in view template woes

[Earl Miles]

Jeff Greenberg wrote:
> I have a view row template, and one of the fields in the row is an 
> imagecache version of a cck image. If I elect for the field settings of 
> it to allow it to be shown, the image appears. It does not, however, 
> appear in a dump of the $rows object, whether the field is excluded from 
> being displayed or not.
> 
> In following the naming convention of other content, and going by a dump 
> of $view where the table name for the field is 
> node_data_field_image_cache and the field name is field_image_cache_fid, 
> I have tried setting the field in the view settings to be excluded from 
> display, and then print it manually in the template. I've tried both
>     $row->node_data_field_image_cache_field_image_cache_fid
> and
>     $row->node_data_field_image_cache_field_image_cache
> with neither working.

Look at $view->fields['field_id_of_the_field'] -- items that have to get 
data from a secondary query -- which includes any CCK field that may be 
multiple, for example -- will store its data in whatever format it needs 
on its own object via the pre_render() function.