Displaying external data on the fly using views and ctools

A talk about using Drupal's views and ctools modules for rendering data from an external source.

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1. Displaying external data on the fly with Views and CTools Saturday, October 27, 12
2. denmark@wunderkraut.com www.wunderkraut.com Strandgade 73, DK-1401 København K Wunderkraut Denmark Developer Mobile: +45 50 50 23 99 lars.linnet@wunderkraut.com @lslinnet Lars Stadel Linnet Wunderkraut Saturday, October 27, 12
3. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Target Audience Code  is  coming! Saturday, October 27, 12
4. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews http://balintk.github.com/ flyviews Example Code by Bálint Kléri Saturday, October 27, 12
5. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Topics Views ‣ query backend ‣ field handlers ‣ sort handlers CTools ‣ Arguments ‣ Contexts Saturday, October 27, 12
6. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews What can it be used for? Fetching live data from a specific REST or well structured data source. Lund University http://lu.se A live example! prepare for stuff to break! Saturday, October 27, 12
7. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews The Setup & the bridge! Let’s take a look at DrupalConsAPIRequest Code view! Saturday, October 27, 12
8. Views! Saturday, October 27, 12
9. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Views query backend Let’s introduce Views and DrupalConsAPIRequest class to each other! Saturday, October 27, 12
10. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Views query plugin ‣hook_views_plugins() ‣hook_views_data() ‣Extend views_plugin_query class ‣init() ‣build() ‣execute() Saturday, October 27, 12
11. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Views handlers ‣Field ‣Filter ‣Sort ‣Argument (contextual filter) ‣Relationship ‣Area Saturday, October 27, 12
12. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Views handlers ‣Look around in the views/handlers folder ‣Extend what you need, reuse what you can! ‣hook_views_data() Saturday, October 27, 12
13. CTools! Saturday, October 27, 12
14. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews CTools plugins Tell Page Manager how to use DrupalConsAPIRequest class! Saturday, October 27, 12
15. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews CTools plugins hook_ctools_plugin_directory() Saturday, October 27, 12
16. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews CTools arguments Saturday, October 27, 12
17. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews CTools contexts Saturday, October 27, 12
18. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Questions? Alternative: Remote entities in Drupal 7 by Florian Loretan http://wunderkraut.com/blog/remote- entities-in-drupal-7/2012-10-25 Saturday, October 27, 12
19. http://balintk.github.com/flyviews Wunderkraut people More than 140 co-workers in nine countries. JOIN US! work@wunderkraut.com Saturday, October 27, 12