What is the best way to add a content/view to a node

Question

I am developing a module to display video. I have created a view so-called navigation for the user to select a video from a list.

Now I want o add this navigation to every node with type = 'video'. I don't know whether I should create a template for it ( then I have to put the template file in theme folder which is not so good ) or use some kind of hooks ( I haven't figured out which one to use ) ?

I tried to install http://drupal.org/project/views_attach, however the view only appeared in the content (after Title) which is not what I really want. I want it to be on top of the title.

Please help. I'm using drupal 6 Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sounds like you'd just create the navigation block any number of ways, and tell the block to only show on video node types using php in the display rules. Maybe menu_block module can help you here.

Answer 2

You can render the view anywhere you want in your node template with views_embed_view.

Create a template specific for your video node type: node-video.tpl.php and insert the view where you want it.

Answer 3

If you don't want to do it via template files, the Panels module can be used to have different layouts per node type. Once you install it, create a variant under the node_view panel and restric that variant to be selected for nodes of type 'video'

Answer 4

I finally found how to implement a view as block (simply select block as a content view) and I use this code below to display a block in a certain node type

<?php
  $match = FALSE;
  $types = array('video'=>1);

  if ((arg(0) == 'node') && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    $node = node_load(arg(1));
    $match = isset($types[$node->type]);
  }
  return $match
}
?>