Create a Drupal 6 View Block Based on Taxonomy Term

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Your Drupal view can be expressed both as a page and as a block. You can also filter your views content according to a taxonomy term argument. And now you want to generate your block according to the presence of your taxonomy term in your URL (either within a menu path or view search block request generated URI).

Usage

Just call MyViewBlockFromURI() wherever you require it. Stick it in a block if required. Also very handy in the header of a view - you can tie the view header into the content using the taxonomy term extracted from the URI.

Code

  /*
   * embed view as a block using $term as the view argument
   */
  function MyViewBlock($term = 'all') {
    return views_embed_view('my_view_block_name', 'block', $term);
  }
  
  /*
   * get block based on the URI
   */
  function MyViewBlockFromURI() {
       
    // get the input from the URL if available
    // looking for make field
    $input = $_GET['my_search_field'];
    
    // if no input defined then get URI
    if (isset($input) == false) {
      // get uri 
      $input = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    }

    // get terms for our vocabulary and see if
    // input contains a valid term
    $tree = taxonomy_get_tree(MY_VOCAB_ID);  // you need to know your  id
    foreach ($tree as $obj) {
      $term = strtolower($obj->name); 
      if (stripos($input, $term) !== false) {
        $make = $term;
        break;
      }
    }
    
    return MyViewBlock($make);
  }

Submitted by Jonathan Mitchell on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 11:23

vsotto (not verified) Says:
Wed, 09/02/2009 - 08:35

I have a vocabulary (taxonomy) name “Section” that has list of terms like “News, Sports, Opinion, Entertainment, and etch.”

I’d like to display a block with list of terms according to “Section” and display set (numbers) of nodes (ex: node titles) according to terms.

So the look would be:

News
* some news story
* some news story

Sports
* some sports story
* some sports story

Opinion
* some opinion story
* some opinion story

…

I have created a view that would accept arguments base on terms, argument type: Term name/synonym converted to Term ID. With your code example that i modify it a bit but, with no success.
function views_block_terms($view_name ,$term) { return views_embed_view($view_name, 'block', $term); }

function views_block_result($view_name, $vid) {
$terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid); // you need to know your id
foreach ($terms as $obj) {
$term = $obj->name;
}

return views_block_terms($view_name, $term);
}

Would you please help how can I achieved the following output above?

You can also check my thread here: http://drupal.org/node/565878

Thanks,

vsotto

vsotto (not verified) Says:
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 14:41

hi! newbie here... where 'my_search_field' come from?

Jonathan Mitchell Says:
Tue, 08/25/2009 - 19:12

my_search_field is a url variable passed in the request.