function _views_create_handler in Views (for Drupal 7) 6.3

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 6.2 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', $handler_type = NULL) {

  //  vpr('Instantiating handler ' . $definition['handler']);
  if (empty($definition['handler'])) {
    return;
  }
  if (!empty($definition['override handler']) && !class_exists($definition['override handler'], FALSE) && !views_include_handler($definition['override handler'], $definition, $type)) {
    return;
  }
  if (!class_exists($definition['handler'], FALSE) && !views_include_handler($definition['handler'], $definition, $type)) {
    return;
  }
  if (!empty($definition['override handler'])) {
    $handler = new $definition['override handler']();
  }
  else {
    $handler = new $definition['handler']();
  }
  $handler
    ->set_definition($definition);
  if ($type == 'handler') {
    $handler->is_handler = TRUE;
    $handler->handler_type = $handler_type;
  }
  else {
    $handler->is_plugin = TRUE;
    $handler->plugin_type = $type;
  }

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