function _views_create_handler in Views (for Drupal 7) 6.2

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 6.3 includes/handlers.inc \_views_create_handler()
2. 7.3 includes/handlers.inc \_views_create_handler()

Instantiate and construct a new handler

3 calls to _views_create_handler()

views_get_handler in ./views.module

Fetch a handler from the data cache.

views_get_plugin in ./views.module

Get a handler for a plugin

_views_prepare_handler in includes/handlers.inc

Prepare a handler's data by checking defaults and such.

File

includes/handlers.inc, line 10

handlers.inc Defines the various handler objects to help build and display views.

Code

function _views_create_handler($definition, $type = 'handler') {

  //  vpr('Instantiating handler ' . $definition['handler']);
  if (empty($definition['handler'])) {
    return;
  }
  if (!class_exists($definition['handler']) && !views_include_handler($definition, $type)) {
    return;
  }
  $handler = new $definition['handler']();
  $handler
    ->set_definition($definition);

  // let the handler have something like a constructor.
  $handler
    ->construct();
  return $handler;
}