[support] Need Help with A Block Knowing Info About First Node in a View

[Anthony Malkoun]

Would probably need to know a bit more about the view...  Are there 
other nodes being displayed in the view?  I'm assuming not or that there 
is something unique about your node?  Or that your context in your block 
changes for any of the items in your view?  Or do you mean that 
sometimes the view shows your node and when it does your block needs to 
know about it?

My first thought is just have another block in your view that doesn't 
show any fields, but still returns the same nids as your main view and 
put your php code in there.

Actually, just read the subject line about the first node... definitely 
use another block display in your current view.  Limit it to return just 
the first item.  Add what you need.

On 6:59 AM, Shai Gluskin wrote:
> I've got a situation where I need a block to know about the contents 
> of the node being displayed.
>
> I've got a block with custom code which starts,
>
> if ( arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) ) {
>     $node = node_load(arg(1));
>
> That works for when the node is displaying on its own page.
>
> But my problem is that I am displaying the node using Views and not on 
> its own page. The reason I am doing this is that that the one node 
> that displays in the view dynamically changes depending on the 
> $node->created time. The view works perfect for this; one URL, dynamic 
> content.
>
> But I need the block to have access to the node object of the one node 
> currently displaying in the View.
>
> What is coming to mind is to run the same query in the block that the 
> view is running to get the $nid and do the node_load off of that. But 
> I thought there was an easier way. Or do I have access to the View object?
>
> Thanks for your suggestions,
>
> Shai