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Can you name one Drupal view template for multiple views?

I used The Views Wizard to render the template and it gave me the following piece of code which can be found in the template.php file.

I'd rather just maintain one template, so all my functions will call the same, and instead of writing multiple versions of the same function, I'm wondering if there is a way to concatenate the string names together? Something like:

function phptemplate_views_view_list_recent_articles($view, $nodes, $type),
phptemplate_views_view_list_popular_articles($view, $nodes, $type) {
  $fields = _views_get_fields();

  $taken = array();

  // Set up the fields in nicely named chunks.
  foreach ($view->field as $id => $field) {
    $field_name = $field['field'];
    if (isset($taken[$field_name])) {
      $field_name = $field['queryname'];
    }
    $taken[$field_name] = true;
    $field_names[$id] = $field_name;
  }

  // Set up some variables that won't change.
  $base_vars = array(
    'view' => $view,
    'view_type' => $type,
  );

  foreach ($nodes as $i => $node) {
    $vars = $base_vars;
    $vars['node'] = $node;
    $vars['count'] = $i;
    $vars['stripe'] = $i % 2 ? 'even' : 'odd';
    foreach ($view->field as $id => $field) {
      $name = $field_names[$id];
      $vars[$name] = views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view);
      if (isset($field['label'])) {
        $vars[$name . '_label'] = $field['label'];
      }
    }
    $items[] = _phptemplate_callback('views-list-first-with-abstract', $vars);
  }
  if ($items) {
    return theme('item_list', $items);
  }
}

Thanks
Steve

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You can simply have the templates you need to call one version of the actual function.

Something like:



function phptemplate_views_view_list_recent_articles($view, $nodes, $type){
          actual_template_function($view, $nodes, $type);
}

function phptemplate_views_view_list_popular_articles($view, $nodes, $type){
          actual_template_function($view, $nodes, $type);
}
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One correction above that slowed me down by half an hour ... your need to include return:

return actual_template_function($view, $nodes, $type);


Other than that, it works great.

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