Comments on: Selectable Items per Page Hack for Drupal 6 Views

By: Stephen Ward

Stephen Ward — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:17:33 +0000

All good solutions. Interestingly enough, the D7 version of Views exposed the items per page filter, so it seems this will always be a backwards hack. Yay for open source!

By: Erald

Erald — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:37:24 +0000

hmm something went wrong with the pasting

the correct code which works
if ($this->get_option(‘use_pager’) == ’0′) {
$this->view->set_items_per_page($this->get_option(‘items_per_page’));
} else {
$this->view->set_items_per_page((($_GET['items-per-page'] > 0) ? $_GET['items-per-page'] : $this->get_option(‘items_per_page’)));
}

By: Erald

Erald — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:32:21 +0000

I like the solution but had some problems with blocks which do not use a pager. so changed things a bit so views on the same page which are not using a pager will not be affected.

?get_option(‘use_pager’) == ’0′) {
$this->view->set_items_per_page($this->get_option(‘items_per_page’));
} else {
$this->view->set_items_per_page((($_GET['items-per-page'] > 0) ? $_GET['items-per-page'] : $this->get_option(‘items_per_page’)));
}
?>

Tried to make a module but probably I am doing something wrong somewhere since got all kinds of weird things. If someone has the complete module code I would appreciate it since hate to hack into the core code.

By: Garry

Garry — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:47:57 +0000

EDIT:

Sorry I hadn’t fully tested that code: here is the working code:

module:

function yourmodulename_views_pre_execute(&$view){
if ($view->name == ‘yourviewname’) {

$view->set_items_per_page((($_GET['items-per-page'] > 0) ? $_GET['items-per-page'] : ”));

}

By: Garry

Garry — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:10:27 +0000

Another version of titoulle’s answer is to have this in a custom module:

function yourmodulename_views_pre_execute(&$view){
if ($view->name == ‘yourviewname’) {

$view->set_items_per_page((($_GET['items-per-page'] > 0) ? $_GET['items-per-page'] : $view->get_option(‘items_per_page’)));

}

This code is just slightly different from the one above, I didn’t have need to code in the limit amount or use SESSION variables.

Hope this helps anyone who needs it.

By: Dornelas

Dornelas — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:18:11 +0000

You guys saved me a lot of time. Thank you very much.
titouille’s solution works very well.

By: titouille

titouille — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:27:00 +0000

Another solution I found with your suggestion is to use the hook_views_pre_execute to modify the item_per_page value like this :

function mymodule_views_pre_execute( &$view ) {

if( $view->name == “my_view” ) {

$display = $view->current_display;

if( $view->display[$display]->display_title == “All my blog posts” ) {

$limit = 12;
if( isset( $_GET["limit"] ) ) $limit = $_SESSION['limit'] = $_GET["limit"];
else if( isset( $_SESSION['limit'] ) ) $limit = $_SESSION['limit'];

if( intval( $limit ) == 0 )
$limit = 12;

$view->set_items_per_page( $limit );
}
}

Hope this help

By: Stephen Ward

Stephen Ward — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:29:55 +0000

That could be a possible solution, jberg, although I’m not sure if that function can be overridden from template.php. I’ve never tried it that way, but I imagine it’s possible; pretty much everything in Drupal can be overridden one way or another.

By: jberg

jberg — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:22:46 +0000

Would it also be possible to override the function in the theme template.php file so you didn’t have to hack the module? sites/all/themes/theme_name/template.php
Then it would be specific for the theme on a server running multiple Drupal sites.

Either way, great solution. Surprised someone hasn’t added something like this to views>pager. It would nice to have a “user defined” option, or at least a “view all” option.

By: bronius

bronius — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:28:44 +0000

Note: I think it’s possible to override this value without a .module hack, at least in the case of embedded views. In the case of embedded views, I believe you could simply set $view->set_items_per_page just like you did in your hack but in the embed.