[development] how to implement hook_views_data() and add a field?

[yi yang]

All I need is just a placeholder. Say, how can I implement a hook to return a static number as a field? Is it possible? Then I can theme it to whatever I want.


--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:

> From: Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com>
> Subject: Re: [development] how to implement hook_views_data() and add a field?
> To: development at drupal.org, yang_yi_cn at yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 2:07 PM
> yi yang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > All I want is just return a number, which comes from a
> sql query count of my custom table. I want to represent that
> as a field so I can adjust it's position in the views
> ui. It doesn't sounds like very hard, right?
> 
> Views doesn't support doing things like COUNT() in
> normal operation yet.