Pass offset and limit in Drupal embed view

Question

I am having below code to embed a view

$view=views_get_view('questions');
$view->set_display('block');

// execute view
$view->execute();
$viewArray = $view->result;

How do I set an offset in this? So that I can get the content I need?

I will be displaying a set of content in a page after processing it. I will need to skip first contents sometime. Like skip first 1 sometime or first 3 some other time.

Answer 1

| skip first 1 sometime or first 3 some other time.

Is there a reason you can't do this in the view? If you use a pager you can specify an on offset in pager options.

If you need to do this in code, you do something like:

$view=views_get_view('questions');
$view->display['block']->display_options['pager']['options']['offset'] = 'OFFSET NUMBER';
$view->execute_display('block'));

Answer 2

You can do it in that way:

$view = views_get_view('testimonials');
$view->set_display('block');
$view->set_offset($offset);
$view->set_items_per_page(2);
$content = $view->preview();

Answer 3

You can also do this in a custom module using hook_view_pre_view() like so:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_views_pre_view().
 */
function MODULENAME_views_pre_view(&$view, &$display_id, &$args) {
  if ($view->name == 'whatever' && $display_id == 'something') {
    $view->set_offset(5);
    $view->set_items_per_page(10);
  }
}

• hook_views_pre_view()
• set_offset()
• set_items_per_page()