Question

I have a Drupal site and I have setup a view to power the front page.

My goal is to be able to pass 0-2 arguments to the home page, that get passed into the view. However, I still need the normal Drupal pages to work. The list of arguments is known.

For example:

• mysite.com/berlin/birds would pass in “berlin” as the first argument and “birds” as the second argument to the view that powers the front page.
• mysite.com/berlin would just pass in one argument, “berlin”
• mysite.com/admin would load the normal admin pages in Drupal

I’m not clear on how to achieve this. Is there a hook I can use? I can’t find one or think of one. Is there a way to specify this in the argument for the view itself? Perhaps I can write a hook that interjects when the URL is being loaded, and rewrite in the background?

The solution I currently have is to add these paths (since my arguments are known) to the menu system. This works, except that when I the pages they aren’t the front page, so the pages don’t use the node themes I want (they use the node details theme).

Answer 1

I don’t think you can really do this without custom code. The View needs a path before it starts taking arguments, and your URLs start with the arguments. What you can do is fake it with custom code. I’ve used something like this:

/**
 * Implements hook_init().
 */
function mymodule_custom_init() {

  $item = menu_get_item(); // Matching Drupal path

  if (!$item) { // There is no matching Drupal path.
    $_GET['q'] = 'view_path/' . $_GET['q']; // Fake path path.
  } // if

} // mymodule_custom_init

Then you give the view a path of “view_path” and it responds to everything that doesn’t match anything else in Drupal’s paths.