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I have a node--type and view--type templates. In view--type I cannot access $node, for example with $node->nid.
How can I inject $node inside view type templates?
I have a views-view-field--mypage--page--body.tpl.php file; this is a field template of the body of teasers where I inserted a Read more link. I need the URL for that link.
Views doesn't load the complete $node object for performance reason. Instead, it build, or attempt to build, an optimized query to only load the fields configured in the Views.
When editing the views, you should have a Fields block. In this block, use its Add fields links to add the additional fields you want to use in your template. If you don't want to display these fields using Views itself, be sure to configure them to be excluded from display.
You can add the properties you need in the view and exclude them from display. This will make them available in templates, but won't effect the markup.
Alternatively you can load the node with node_load, but to do this, you need to nid (node id) from somewhere. One way would be to use the above technique.
node_load uses static cache, it might not generate a query anyways.
Nov 9, 2011 at 15:12
What kind of information do you need from the $node object that you can't get from views standard options?
If you enable views_customfield you can add a PHP code field into the Views UI. Just add the node NID as a normal field and then add a custom PHP field, then use:
print var_export($data, TRUE);
in this new PHP code field to show you what items you can call from the views result.
One of them will be the nid so you could use node_load($data->nid);
Remember you need to add the PHP opening and closing tags around your code in the Views customfield.
You could do the same in a template or preprocess function too and if you have some complex logic that is what I would recommend.
