Tips : Using Views in Drupal 6

Drupal 6 has been out for a while now and modules are getting ported to the new version. For those of us that are relatively new to Drupal it has been a long slow wait - but the benefit is that we have a bit of extra motivation to learn and do “stuff” for ourselves.

If the search for cool modules and functions on the Drupal site one thing you begin to see is the importance of modules that might not necessarily supply a prebuilt function, like a calendar for example, but provide the ability to define new types, views, or displays of data from either your Drupal site or a different source. The modules I’ve been exploring are:

• Feed Aggregator
• CCK
• Views
• Panels

Feed Aggreagtor is supplied in D6 and is pretty self explanatory. The remaining 3 are very powerful. I checked out the really cool myplay.com site Sony-BMG put together. If you haven’t seen it you should check it out. They made extensive use of Views and Panels to build this site. Views is in beta now for D6 and since I also wanted a calendar, I decided to start experimenting with Views. Ok - to explain that comment: the best Calendar function for D6 uses Views for the rendering of the event data. Because Views are still in beta I had to do some tweaking.

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