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

[sebastian]

Sigh, I'm a fairly smart person, at least, I thought I was... but the 
more I try and figure out things in Drupal, the more lost I become. My 
site is 90%+ done, but these last ordeals are really painful to unravel...

Where is the phptemplate_preprocess_node?

I've been looking everywhere to find this, is it a field in the admin tool?

or: A *.tpl.php file I am supposed to make from scratch?
ie: http://drupal.org/node/223430

If its the later, I have no idea what is going on with all these 10 
preprocessors... are there examples of these files?

Thanks,

Sebastian.

Ng Chin Kiong wrote:
> sebastian,
> 
> Actually don't need to touch view or view template. The more 'natural' 
> way is to check it under phptemplate_preprocess_node, if the field's 
> content does not exist, add an additional CSS class to the node (says 
> 'no-field-A'). This way you theme the node + the view or other ways that 
> you retrieve a node.
> 
> In your CSS, just theme
> .no-field-A .field-A {
>   display: none;
> }
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> CK Ng
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:19 AM, <themes-request at drupal.org 
> <mailto:themes-request at drupal.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Message: 1
>     Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:56:46 -0700
>     From: sebastian <inforazor at gmail.com <mailto:inforazor at gmail.com>>
>     Subject: [themes] how to stop a 'view' from showing a field?
>     To: themes at drupal.org <mailto:themes at drupal.org>
>     Message-ID: <49DD47CE.9070008 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:49DD47CE.9070008 at gmail.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
>     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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