[support] Passing multiple values into a single Views argument

Wed Nov 24 18:50:54 UTC 2010

Ursula/Christopher,

Thanks for this help. I'll try it later when I'm at home. The only thing 
that concerns me is that views was showing 5000ms for that view to 
render so I suspect having such a complicated nested sql query in there 
just to supply the arg is going to be a killer.

Neil

On 24/11/2010 15:42, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> Or, to avoid a stray '+' at the end,
>
> $members = array();
> while( $member = db_fetch_object($result) ){
>     $members[] = $member->uid;
> }
>
> return implode('+', $members);
>
> On 11/24/2010 01:29 PM, Ursula Pieper wrote:
>> Neil,
>>
>> If you use return inside the while loop like you do it, the loop will
>> process the first return of the query (37), and return that value to
>> the parent function. It basically will break the loop and won't go
>> through it until the further entries are processed.
>>
>> You need to concatenate the fetched values to a variable (for
>> example), and return that variable once the loop is finished.
>> while($member = db_fetch_object($result)){
>>       $variable.= $member->uid . "+";
>> }
>> return $variable;
>>
>> If you want to retrieve the values from the database ordered, you need
>> to add an "order by node.uid asc" to the SQL query.
>>
>> Hope this helps, Ursula
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Neil Coghlan<neil at esl-lounge.com>   wrote:
>>> this is where I'm up to
>>>
>>> $result = db_query("SELECT node.nid, node.title, node.type, node.uid FROM
>>> node WHERE node.uid IN (SELECT node.uid FROM node
>>> WHERE nid IN (SELECT nid FROM content_type_profile
>>> WHERE field_city_value IN (SELECT field_city_value FROM content_type_profile
>>> JOIN node ON content_type_profile.nid = node.nid
>>> WHERE node.uid = 2 AND node.type = 'profile')))
>>> AND node.uid != 2");
>>> $member = db_fetch_object($result);
>>> while($member = db_fetch_object($result)){
>>> return $member->uid . "+";
>>> }
>>>
>>> I expect it to come back "31+37+39+" but it's coming back only "37+" (if I
>>> test in on a page and use "print" instead of "return", I get exactly what I
>>> want)
>>>
>>> that would be my woeful php obviously for which I apologise now.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to adapt what Idan wrote but cannot get it to output multiple
>>> UIDs to insert as the user:uid argument.
>>>
>>> I'm also getting Query Build Time in views of around 5050ms so I'm guessing
>>> my sql is massively inefficient too...I do need the join and the nested
>>> SELECTs though. I'm getting the UID of all the people who share the location
>>> taxonomy term on their profile with the logged in user, so it was never
>>> going to be easy!
>>>
>>> by the way, in my query, I'm hardcoding the logged in user's UID (2) just
>>> for testing purposes.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>> On 20/11/2010 12:23, Idan Arbel wrote:
>>>
>>> You can see that I cycle through the id's and add them to $args[0] and
>>> return it. Similar to what you did, try changing the variable name to
>>> $args[0].
>>>
>>> for($i=1; $i<count($terms); $i++)
>>> $args[0] = $args[0] ."+" .$terms[$i]; // replace the + with , if you want
>>> and "And" action instead of "or"
>>> }
>>>
>>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Neil Coghlan
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:20 PM
>>> To: support at drupal.org
>>> Subject: Re: [support] Passing multiple values into a single Views argument
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> hmm, can't see how that would apply in my case. Maybe it does, but can't see
>>> it.
>>>
>>> bottom line: if an sql query returns 3 values, how do I get those 3 values
>>> into a Views argument via "provide default argument"?
>>>
>>> On 20/11/2010 10:30, Idan Arbel wrote:
>>>
>>> Take a look at this code I used for something similar:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> if (arg(0) == 'node'&&   is_numeric(arg(1))) {
>>> $node=node_load(arg(1));
>>> $term = taxonomy_node_get_terms_by_vocabulary($node, 4); // 4 being the
>>> vocabulary id
>>> $terms = array_keys($term);
>>> $args[0] = $terms[0];
>>> for($i=1; $i<count($terms); $i++)
>>> $args[0] = $args[0] ."+" .$terms[$i]; // replace the + with , if you want
>>> and "And" action instead of "or"
>>> }
>>> return $args[0];
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> might help you out.
>>>
>>> Idan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Neil Coghlan
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:25 PM
>>> To: support at drupal.org
>>> Subject: Re: [support] Passing multiple values into a single Views argument
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Idan, I only just realised myself there was an "accept multiple arguments"
>>> checkbox....without that, I never would get it working!
>>>
>>> so...now with that checked, I still need to get the UID's passed in x,y,z or
>>> x+y+z format.
>>>
>>> On 20/11/2010 10:21, Idan Arbel wrote:
>>>
>>> if you want to view to take them into account as using "AND" then return
>>> them like so: 12+32+34, if you want it to take them into account as or
>>> return them as so 12,32,34.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> don't forget to check to box in the argument settings area to accept
>>> multiple arguments
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Neil Coghlan<neil at esl-lounge.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a view where I have selected User:uid as an argument and I am
>>> using a sql query in the "Provide Default Argument" part. The problem
>>> is, usually, the sql query is passing muliple UIDs back. How would I
>>> pass all of them into the argument to be used by the view.
>>>
>>> At the moment, the view is only taking the first one.
>>>
>>> so, here is a simplified version of my php code:
>>>
>>> global $user;
>>> $result = db_query("SELECT node.uid FROM {node}
>>> WHERE node.type = 'profile'");
>>> $member = db_fetch_object($result);
>>> return "$member->uid";
>>>
>>> on my current db, this returns 3 UIDs...the view only takes the first one.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>
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