Drupal views + CCK. Not sure how to get the view to display the way I'd like.

Question

I'm using a custom theme.

I have a custom content type with two fields.

1. title
2. thumbnail (created using imagecache).

Note, in the example below, URL 1 and Title 1 are the two fields for the first row in the result set.

I would like it to output something like so:

<span>
  <img src="URL1" />
  <span>Title 1</span>
</span>
<span>
  <img src="URL2" />
  <span>Title 2</span>
</span>

Basically I went a horizontal list of blocks that are flush with each other. Each block consists of two parts, the top part is a thumbnail, the bottom part is the title.

The issue I'm having is that I'm not sure which theme override I should use. In this case each list element consists of two fields rather than the 1 list element per field that the views module seems to expect. Overriding fields is too low, but overriding the rows seems to be too high because I can't seem to get at the information I need.

How would you recommend I go about accomplishing this?

Answer 1

If you are using Views, you have the ability to manipulate the display without overriding the theme.

To do this, first ensure that the image gallery module is installed. Then, from /admin go to Site Building -> Views. Find your view in the list and click it's edit link. At this point if one doesn't exist, you may want to add an additional display for this specific view, or just stick with the default display. Click on the Style type under the Basic Settings section and choose Gallery.

I haven't tried this, but it should work.