How do I load information for views programmatically? [closed]

Question

I have a view for a blog page that has the basic fields associated such as title, body, post-date, image, and author. What I need is a way to get access to the fields of the view to show on parts of the site with out creating a page or block. I just need the view to organize my information and will be using jQuery to parse the data.

Answer 1

Sounds like you could use views_get_view_result().

views_get_view_result($name, $display_id = NULL)

Get the result of a view.

Also take a look at this answer for a more complete solution.

Answer 2

It sounds like you may want to use an Entity Field Query

To do something like gather the nodes tagged with taxonomy term of tid = 2 in field_your_taxonomy_field, do something like the following:

 $query = new EntityFieldQuery;

 $result = $query
   ->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node')
   ->propertyCondition('status', 1)
   ->fieldCondition('field_your_taxonomy_field', 'tid', 2, '=')
   ->execute();

This returns a list of IDs (in this case nids) of entities that meet the conditions specified. To get info beyond the ID, you would load the entity and extract the value, with something like:

foreach($results['node'] as $result) {
  $nid = ($result->nid);
  $node = node_load($nid);
  print($node->title);
}

To be clear, this cannot load information from a view that has already been created, but it can be used instead of a view. This can be good if you don't need the view for purposes other than the fields you're trying to display right now or you need to display fields other than the way your view does.