[themes] how to stop a 'view' from showing a field?

[sebastian]

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the link,

I've been trussing about for a few hours, but I can't get anything 
meaningful to output.

I added:

<?php
   print '<pre>' . htmlentities(print_r($rows, 1)) . '</pre>';
?>

To the views-view.tpl.php and got this output:

Array ( [0] => template_file [1] => variables [2] => template_files [3] 
=> view [4] => zebra [5] => id [6] => directory [7] => is_admin [8] => 
is_front [9] => logged_in [10] => db_is_active [11] => user [12] => rows 
[13] => css_name [14] => name [15] => display_id [16] => empty [17] => 
exposed [18] => header [19] => footer [20] => more [21] => feed_icon 
[22] => attachment_before [23] => attachment_after [24] => pager [25] => 
admin_links_raw [26] => admin_links [27] => dom_id )

Which doesn't really help me [i think], unless I am expected to dig into 
each level from here??

If I look at the comments in the 
Views->theme->information->views-view.tpl.php

I see no change to the comments written there, though I do see the above 
Array stuff re-printed to the comments area.

If I put the above code instead into: views-view-fields.tpl.php

Then I get no output change when I run the page [strage?] and if i look 
at Views->theme->information->views-view-fields.tpl.php or at 
views-view.tpl.php I see no change to the comments at the top, nor any 
output at the bottom [ie no change at all]

Am I putting it in the wrong file?

If I try add be 'smart' and add:

<?php
   print '<pre>' . htmlentities(print_r($fields, 1)) . '</pre>';

?>

To the bottom of the: views-view-fields.tpl.php file, I break the 
page... [get a 100% "white" page]

Sigh, Still trying to figure out how I can simply identify variables...
:P

Thanks!

Sebastian.

Ivan Boothe wrote:
> Sebastian,
> 
> You'll probably need to do this through views template. Here's the 
> handbook page on this theming:
> 
> http://drupal.org/node/352970
> 
> Basically you'll want to target that field with a template and put in 
> conditional code or otherwise change the tags surrounding the field output.
> 
> (If you have any questions after reading the handbook page let me know, 
> as I wrote a lot of what is there and I'm looking for ways to improve 
> anything that's unclear.)
> 
> --ivan
> 
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> 
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:56 PM, sebastian wrote:
> 
>> Hello listers,
>>
>> Hope this is the right place to ask this question.
>>
>> I am building a theme and I have little icons that I want to have 
>> appearing when there is a 'File - CCK' field present.
>>
>> The field is optional in the content-type. I have created a view for 
>> the page that shows the content, and when the file-cck field is empty, 
>> it still shows all the surrounding <div> and <a href> tags, which 
>> triggers my CSS and then I still show the little custom PDF icon; only 
>> I want it to be blank.
>>
>> When I click on the View for the field: file-cck (generic files)
>>
>> I only see the options:
>>
>> - Exclude from display
>> - Rewrite output field
>> - Output this field as a link
>> - Trim to max length
>> - Link this to its node
>> - Label [none/drop down]
>> - Format [generic files]
>>
>> I can't see from this list any way to have it be conditional; ie: only 
>> display Field formatting [Div+a href] if there is actually any data 
>> present.
>>
>> Thanks for your help, hopefully this is an easy one.
>> :)
>>
>> Kind,
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