Comments on: Passing an argument to a Block View in Drupal 6

By: pradeep

pradeep — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:42:55 +0000

thanksssssssssssss

By: dan

dan — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:24:02 +0000

Thanks for this article. It got me out of a bad situation. If you are having problems making this work, it could be that you are using punctuation in your title and have pathauto set to remove the punctuation. It seems that this way of doing things pulls the argument from the node title before pathauto removes punctuation.

By: William

William — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:30:24 +0000

Will this work in drupal 7? Can anyone help me out here? I can’t seem to get $_GET to work. I’ve tried returning a constant and it worked, I tried storing an integer in a variable and returning the variable, and it worked, but $_GET just doesn’t seem to get the argument value.

I even did the most basic thing I could think of and it just won’t work.

I typed http://localhost:8082/?q=12 into the address bar.
I have my php code as

$path = $_GET['q'];
return $path;

The block is outputting null instead of content 12.

I tried everything. Suggestions?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:57:26 +0000

This is great. Been trying for a while to make a block appear on user pages with a list of content they’ve authored. This is a good solution. Thanks!

By: Sathesh

Sathesh — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:44:37 +0000

Hey there.. Thanks for putting this up. It really saved me some time in setting up the view arguments with blocks. Thanks dude..

By: biz

biz — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:35:03 +0000

Thanks a bunch! Worked like a charm for me.

By: Batido de naranja - by victorcoder » Pasar parametros a bloques de vista en Drupal

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:54 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:44:27 +0000

I made a temporary solution that works for what I need but hurts a little. After incorporating your suggestions, I set the block view to show at:
exhibitors/exhibit-list
exhibitors/exhibit-list/*
Under URL aliases, I created 26 aliases (which may grow if we get exhibitors that start with numbers), like this:
node/XX
exhibitors/exhibit-list/c
That works for now, but if there’s a better solution, let me know.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:14:06 +0000

I’m almost ready to post an ‘AWESOME!’ comment, but am not quite there just yet. I have a node located at exhibitors/exhibit-list that has some pdf attachments, copy, etc. (so I can’t create a page view here as non-webby people maintain the content) I also have a block view assigned to the same page/path that shows a list of exhibitors, all of them to start. Now, if I enter a URL like:

exhibitors/exhibit-list/b

I get a page not found, because I’m guessing the path is different now. With some minor adjustments to the code I have everything working fine in the views preview. Arguments are being understood there thanks to your help!

Any thoughts on what I might be missing? Do I need to set up something special in pathauto? Thanks for your advise in advance!

By: Luigi

Luigi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:44:17 +0000

Thanks alot Kevin.