Question

I’ve created a view which outputs a particular content type into a jCarousel.

One of my fields is a ‘background colour’ and I want to use this value for the actual background colour of the li element in my jCarousel. The next is an image and I want this image to be wrapped in a div that I can lay out correctly within the same li of the carousel.

So, this carousel will have a customisable image and background colour for each member of the content type.

The problem is, in jCarousel, the fields are just dumped into an array haphazardly, so I cannot output different fields in different ways. Ideally, what I’d like to happen is: in the jcarousel-view.tpl.php I’d like to output $rows[0]['background-color'] into my custom html div tags and then $rows[0]['image'] output into my own custom classed div tags also – obviously iterated within a loop to apply the individual settings to each element.
However, the current set up is that $rows[0] dumps both fields into their default styles and I can’t access individual fields.

Now, is this something I can control in Views? Or do I need to do some custom hacking to get this to work?

Answer 1

have you tried working with the rewrite the output option in view? just click on any field in view edit page, you should see it.