Override title with field label instead of key inside a views contextual filter

Question

I have a soccer team Drupal 7 site where I keep track of the players using a user role. I have a view of the players which grids their profile pics and I'm very happy with it. It's URL is /players

Now I want to divide the players into separate groups. My first stab at this was to add a user_program field onto the User content type. I added this field of type List(text), and gave it keys/values like: youth_competitive_program|Youth Competitive Program primary_competitive_programe|Primary Competitive Program

I then added a Contextual Filter so that I have /players/youth_competitive_program and such. Works very well. Except: when I tell those views to override the title using %1 I get the key instead of the value. What I really want is my human readable value up there, not the key.

Answer 1

edit your Contextual Filter check Specify validation criteria in Validator check PHP code and enter following:

if ($argument == 'youth_competitive_program') {
  $handler->options['title'] = 'Youth Competitive Program';
  return true;
} else if ($argument == 'primary_competitive_programe') {
  $handler->options['title'] = 'Primary Competitive Program';
  return true;
}
return false;

there is another similar way:

if (!empty($argument)) {
  $handler->options['title'] = t($argument);
  return true;
}

return false;

and translate them, so if you add more option to your user_program fields, this code will work better.

but there is another option yet:

$field = field_info_field('field_user_program');
if (array_key_exists($argument, $field['settings']['allowed_values'])) {
  $handler->options['title'] = $field['settings']['allowed_values'][$argument];
  return true;
}
return false;

I will select the last way

Answer 2

Why don't you use Human readable values for both the key and value of the list? Views should be able to accept an argument with hyphens and substitute spaces in the title. You may have to modify the template to get title cases in your title using something like php's ucwords().