Drupal Asia Pacific Conference

Summary

This session looks at how to use your Drupal site to deliver Views as Services where the views are modified on the way through.

Outline/Plan

-- Modules that provide views arguments to render views differently.
-- Returning a view via a service, some server options.
-- Writing our custom service with extra parameters
-- Loading (and modifying) views dynamically. views_build_view() options.

Goals/Outcomes

Demonstrate the power and limitations of services and share ideas about leveraging the power of views.

Presenter Info

Simon Hobbs built a prototype for Lonely Planet, one of the requirements was to deliver content flexibly and to explore the potential of an API for external clients. This session is based on learning from that project.