Adding to $items in a Drupal view

I recently needed to add an extra link to the end of my $items list in a list view and found that this could be done quickly in template.php.

I set out to do two things:
- add a link to the end of my list view that does not contain node data
- as part of this last list item, include a custom link that changes depending on the name of the view

Accomplishing this was a lot easier than I expected. All I had to do was add a switch statement for the view name, and also add a line with the content I wanted to add to my $items array before the theming function.

Here is my code:

<?php
function phptemplate_views_view_list_myview($view, $nodes, $type) {
  $fields = _views_get_fields();
  $taken = array();

  // Set up the fields in nicely named chunks.
  foreach ($view->field as $id => $field) {
    $field_name = $field['field'];
    if (isset($taken[$field_name])) {
      $field_name = $field['queryname'];
    }
    $taken[$field_name] = true;
    $field_names[$id] = $field_name;
  }

  // Set up some variables that won't change.
  $base_vars = array(
    'view' => $view,
    'view_type' => $type,
  );

  foreach ($nodes as $i => $node) {
    $vars = $base_vars;
    $vars['node'] = $node;
    $vars['fullNode'] = node_load($node->nid);
    $vars['link'] = l($vars['fullNode']->body, 'node/' . $node->nid);
    $vars['count'] = $i;
    $vars['stripe'] = $i % 2 ? 'even' : 'odd';

//adding extra variable for view name contextual links, in a template, this will be $linked_page. 
    switch ($vars['view']->name) {
    case 'view_one':
        $vars['linked_page'] = '/news/special_one'; 
        break;

    case 'view_two':
        $vars['linked_page'] = '/news/special_two'; 
        break;
        
    case 'view_three':
        $vars['linked_page'] = '/news/special_three'; 
        break;    
        
    case 'view_four':
        $vars['linked_page'] = '/news/special_four'; 
        break;
                        
}
    foreach ($view->field as $id => $field) {
      $name = $field_names[$id];
      $vars[$name] = views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view);
      if (isset($field['label'])) {
        $vars[$name . '_label'] = $field['label'];
      }
    }
    $items[] = _phptemplate_callback('views-happy_news', $vars);
  }
//the key, I'm adding a link to the $items[] array. 
    $items[] =  "<a href=\"{$vars['linked_page']}\" class=\"more-articles\">See more news</a> »";
  if ($items) {
    return theme('item_list', $items);
}
}
?>

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Adding to $items in a Drupal view

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