How to set programmatically multiple arguments for views contextual filters

Question

How to set programmatically multiple arguments for views contextual filters?

I can do it with one argument, it works great, but not with multiple arguments.

I want to select all nodes created by a list of people, but views only takes first in array into consideration:

$array = array(3250,32);
$view = views_get_view('myview');
$view->set_display("myblock");
$view->set_arguments($array);
$view->pre_execute();
$view->execute();
$content = $view->render(); 

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

First you should set this option: View → Advanced → Your Contextual Filter → More → Allow Multiple Values. Then when passing array should be with '+', so, your example:

$array = array('3250+32');
$view = views_get_view('myview');
$view->set_display("myblock");
$view->set_arguments($array);
$view->pre_execute();
$view->execute();
$content = $view->render(); 

Answer 2

If you're simply looking to render the view with its arguments (and don't need to do any more work on it), you can just call views_embed_view(). It's called like so:

<?php print views_embed_view($view, $display, $arg1, $arg2, ...); ?>

The $view and $display are the machine names of same. See the above-linked documentation for details.

Answer 3

Another one approach, which proved to be quite useful:

$array = array('3250', '32'); 
$view = views_get_view('myview');
$view->set_display("myblock");
$view->pre_execute($array);
$view->execute();
$content = $view->render();

pre_execute() method of view object accepts arguments, that will be passed to corresponding contextual filters. E.g. '3250' will be passed to the first contextual filter, '32' - to the second one.

More info about method here.

Answer 4

are you sure your view is looking for integer values here? try this:

$array = array('3250','32'));

Answer 5

Also you can replace this $array = array(3250,32); to $array = array('3250,32');