I have a Views-generated block which lists news. I would like the number of items to depend on the page it is displayed on - for instance: on the front page there's a place for 3, on another one - even 10. Is there a way to do that via a View tpl or template.php code?
I would rather not have an almost-identical copy of the View just for a different purpose.
This works for me:
function MYMODULE_views_pre_build(&$view) {
if ($view->name == 'view_name') {
$view->items_per_page = 5;
}
}
$view->current_page to be one fewer and $view->offset to be the number of results on the first page seems to be the way to do this. That avoids missing results. You also have to tweak the pager to fix the numbers, but I don't have space to explain that here :)
May 6, 2014 at 0:16
I can think of two ways.
The best one, requires Page manager and Panels. Using those is to large a discussion to fit in here, but when a View is rendered with those tools, you can override the actual pager on a case by case basis. Page manager gives you a large set of conditions to manage when and where this happens.
The second solution uses a custom module:
function hook_views_pre_build(&$view) {
if ($view->name == 'view_name' && $is_front) {
$view->items_per_page = 5;
}
}
In your views tpl check for page arguments or $is_front And apply limit vars to foreach or whatever loop you're using.
Well, hook_views_pre_build should be the hook to be using if you want to alter paging, etc.. maybe you could try to post some code you've tried ?
if i recall correctly, you can set the items per page like this:
MYMODULE_views_pre_build(&$view){
$view->pager["items_per_page"] = 0;
}
use your own logic to alter the items per page as you wish.
