How to override default template files of a view

Question

I have to implement my custom markup in a view. How I can override the markup for the views header, footer, and attachments? Which TPL files I have to modify and how will be its machine names. Which also respects keeping the templates of the other views unchangeched.

Answer 1

If you have a view called foobar than you can create this tpl file in your templates/views directory:

views-view--foobar.tpl.php

Then change foobar to whatever your view is called and then clear the cache.

To create custom variables to your view create a hook_preprocess_views_view in your template.php file, like this:

function template_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
  $view = $vars['view'];
  $vars['foobar'] = 'Hello World';
}

Now you have a $foobar variable in your template.

Answer 2

To override a view you need to write three template files. Below are the files:

1. views-view--search-page.html
2. views-view-unformatted--search-page.html
3. views-view-fields--search-page.html

To know exact names of template files, you can even use Devel module to find out the suggested names.

Location of these files will be : \themes\bootstrap\templates\views\ [place-your-files-here]

After you create your files, clear drupal cache for the code in twigs to be reflected.