Insert *whatever* every nth row in Views

Question

I am looking for a solution to insert "something" every nth row in a view. Technically, that "something" will be an Ad, but in Drupal terms it could be a block, a node, an entity, custom html row...really anything that can point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

In under Theme: Information you'll find Style output: views-view-table.tpl.php .... Override that. I selected the Theming info as opposed to other template overrides available because that is the one that has a foreach for rows. In your override you can add a counter to the foreach() along with an if($counter%10 == 0) { ... } with some markup or call to a block or something like that.

Answer 2

I would implement hook_views_pre_render. Loop through and append, edit, or create new entries into $view->result as needed.

Using this approach you'd be injecting hand-picked stuff into your Views raw resultset and might be limited in your row style output unless you digged into Views quite a bit to override the row display handler (which I think is doable).

Answer 3

I think doing it in hook_views_post_execute works best.

<?php

/**
 * Implements hook_views_post_execute().
 */
function my_module_views_post_execute(&$view) {
  $entity_id = my_module_fetch_entity_id(); //Random function
  $view->result[] = (object) [
    'entity' => $entity_id,
  ];
}

Source: https://bitbucket.org/snippets/intracto/eax4/drupal-insert-an-entity-in-a-views-result

Answer 4

If you want to print custom code after every nth (for example 4th) row and keep the odd/even sequence you can simply edit default views template.

Place right into your theme's folder this file views-view-unformatted--taxonomy-term--page.tpl.php with this code and you will see "Your custom code goes here" text after 4th row in default Taxonomy term views:

<?php foreach ($rows as $id => $row): ?>
  <div class="<?php
  switch ($id) {
    case 1:
    case 3:
    case 4:
    case 6:
    case 8:
    //add more IDs if you have more rows than 10 in your views
      $myclasses = 'views-row-even row';
    break;

    default:
      $myclasses = 'views-row-odd row';
  }  
  print $myclasses; ?>"><?php print $row; ?></div>
  <?php if ($id == 3): ?>
    <div class="views-row-odd row">Your custom code goes here</div>
  <?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Based on this solution: http://www.jasom.net/how-to-add-custom-code-adsense-after-first-row-in-drupal-7-and-drupal-8-views-one-line-solution