public function view::preview in Views (for Drupal 7) 7.3

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 6.3 includes/view.inc \view::preview()
2. 6.2 includes/view.inc \view::preview()

Preview the given display, with the given arguments.

To be called externally, probably by an AJAX handler of some flavor. Can also be called when views are embedded, as this guarantees normalized output.

File

includes/view.inc, line 1407

views_objects Objects that represent a View or part of a view

Class

view

An object to contain all of the data to generate a view.

Code

public function preview($display_id = NULL, $args = array()) {
  if (empty($this->current_display) || !empty($display_id) && $this->current_display != $display_id) {
    if (!$this
      ->set_display($display_id)) {
      return FALSE;
    }
  }
  $this->preview = TRUE;
  $this
    ->pre_execute($args);

  // Preview the view.
  $output = $this->display_handler
    ->preview();
  $this
    ->post_execute();
  return $output;
}