[development] [views] Knowing the display type of a view

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

We tend to use the 'is_a' function, like so:

if (is_a($view->display_handler, 'views_plugin_display_page')) {
  ...
}

that way if you use a display handler that subclasses the page one,
you still get your code executed.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-a.php

Regards
Steven Jones
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On 30 Dec 2010, at 15:43, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:

> On 12/30/2010 5:09 AM, Christian López Espínola wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm implementing a hook of hook_views_pre_render and I need to know if
>> the current display being rendered is a page.
>>
>> Is there any api in views for this?
>> I'm right now using
>>   substr($view->current_display, 0, 4) == 'page'
>> but I wonder if there is any way more elegant.
>
> This is probably more correct.
>
> get_class($view->display_handler) == 'views_plugin_display_page'
>
> More generically, there's also:
> $view->display_handler->has_path() -- that gets more than just 'page'
> displays, it gets 'feed' displays as well. But this could be valuable if
> using something like calendar's custom page displays which aren't
> specifically page displays, but act like them nonetheless.
>