Question

I am learning Drupal 7 for my new project.

Here is what I want to do

1. create a new content type called ‘video’
2. create a new module called ‘video’
3. make http://domain.com/video accessible.
4. when a user access /video, then execute a query that queries video rows from video table (created by ‘video’ content type’), then display queries with a custom template.

I have learned how to do #1 ~ #3, but I am a little bit confused with #4.

let’s assume that my custom template’s filename is ‘video.tpl.php’

in the video.tpl.php, do I write php functions to query video rows?

I don’t think that is a good practice. Instead, I want to write a module and call a function in the module when the video.tpl.php is loaded.

How do I do it?

Answer 1

You should use views