How to change the HTML of the drupal 5's views module

Question

I'm using Drupal 5 and have a multitude of views that I want to alter the output of. Using the views wizard, I can create a different template for each instance, but I'm wanting to do the same changes across all my views and having 30 files in the themes directory seams like a hell of a lot of maintenance and code. Does anyone know if there's a default way of addressing all the views at the same time and then using what I currently have for one offs?

Here's what I have now:

views-list-home_______articles_______latest.tpl.php

<?php 
/**
 * views template to output one 'row' of a view.
 * This code was generated by the views theming wizard
 * Date: November 17, 2008 - 2:07pm
 * View: home_articles_latest
 *
 * Variables available:
 * $view -- the entire view object. Important parts of this object are
 *   home_articles_latest, .
 * $view_type -- The type of the view. Probably 'page' or 'block' but could
 *   also be 'embed' or other string passed in from a custom view creator.
 * $node -- the raw data. This is not a real node object, but will contain
 *   the nid as well as other support fields that might be necessary.
 * $count -- the current row in the view (not TOTAL but for this page) starting
 *   from 0.
 * $stripe -- 'odd' or 'even', alternating. * $title -- Display the title of the node.
 * $title_label -- The assigned label for $title
 * $comment_count -- This will display the comment count.
 * $comment_count_label -- The assigned label for $comment_count
 * $field_abstract_value -- 
 * $field_abstract_value_label -- The assigned label for $field_abstract_value
 *
 * This function goes in your views-list-home_articles_latest.tpl.php file
 */


 //now we add the stylesheet...
 //drupal_add_css(path_to_theme() .'/views-list-home_articles_latest.css');

  ?>
  <?php print $view ?>
<div class="view-label view-field-title">
  <?php print $title_label ?>
</div>
<div class="view-field view-data-title">
  <?php print $title?>
</div>

<?php if ($comment_count != '0' && $view_type == 'block'): ?>
<div class="view-label view-field-comment-count">
  <?php print $comment_count_label ?>
</div>
<div class="view-field view-data-comment-count">
  <?php print $add?><?php print $comment_count?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($count == 0): ?>
<div class="view-label view-field-field-abstract-value">
  <?php print $field_abstract_value_label ?>
</div>
<div class="view-field view-data-field-abstract-value">
  <?php print $field_abstract_value?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

in template.php

/**
 * views template to output a view.
 * This code was generated by the views theming wizard
 * Date: November 17, 2008 - 2:07pm
 * View: home_articles_latest
 *
 * This function goes in your template.php file
 */
function phptemplate_views_view_list_home_articles_latest($view, $nodes, $type) {
  $fields = _views_get_fields();

  $taken = array();

  // Set up the fields in nicely named chunks.
  foreach ($view->field as $id => $field) {
    $field_name = $field['field'];
    if (isset($taken[$field_name])) {
      $field_name = $field['queryname'];
    }
    $taken[$field_name] = true;
    $field_names[$id] = $field_name;
  }

  // Set up some variables that won't change.
  $base_vars = array(
    'view' => $view,
    'view_type' => $type,
  );

  foreach ($nodes as $i => $node) {
    $vars = $base_vars;
    $vars['node'] = $node;
    $vars['count'] = $i;
    $vars['stripe'] = $i % 2 ? 'even' : 'odd';
    foreach ($view->field as $id => $field) {
      $name = $field_names[$id];
      $vars[$name] = views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view);
      if (isset($field['label'])) {
        $vars[$name . '_label'] = $field['label'];
      }
    }
    $items[] = _phptemplate_callback('views-list-home_articles_latest', $vars);
  }
  if ($items) {
    return theme('item_list', $items);
  }
}

Thanks,
Steve

Answer 1

I believe that each template will have to be updated independently, if you're talking about something that goes on inside the view's template. I don't know of a way to update just one small part of n views.

If you have a header that you're putting above the template for each view you might be able to do that with a helper function in the template.php or a conditional in node.tpl.php. But if it's further inside than that, I believe you're out of luck.

Answer 2

Thanks Acrosman,

I have about 60 of them, so obviously overriding somewhere else would be benifitial...

Maybe I'm thinking of this all wrong and what I should really be tackling is field.tpl.php or template.php?

Cheers,
Steve

Answer 3

I think just creating a file named "views-list.tpl.php" will apply to all List-style views (unless a more specific .tpl.php file is present).

Otherwise, there may be a way to get what you want using theme functions.

Answer 4

Any chance hook_form_alter() might get you where you wanna go ??

Answer 5

In Views 5, there's no way for modules to expose tpl files by default, so the template name won't help you out any. The key is the function that's being put into your template.php file, "phptemplate_views_view_list_home_articles_latest". It's a PHP function intercepting the rendering of any list view named 'home_articles_latest'. If you wanted it to intercept ALL views, you'd just change the name of the function itself to: "phptemplate_views_view"

Keep in mind that would affect everything -- sidebar blocks build with views, RSS feeds, etc.