Act on the view before the query is built, but after displays are attached.

Output can be added to the view by setting $view->attachment_before and $view->attachment_after.

Parameters

\Drupal\views\ViewExecutable $view: The view object about to be processed.

See also

\Drupal\views\ViewExecutable

Related topics

2 functions implement hook_views_pre_build()

Note: the procedural functions in this list are found by pattern matching, so the list may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.

ViewsTestDataViewsExecutionHooks::viewsPreBuild in core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_data/src/Hook/ViewsTestDataViewsExecutionHooks.php

Implements hook_views_pre_build().

views_test_data_views_pre_build in core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_data/views_test_data.views_execution.inc

Implements hook_views_pre_build().

1 invocation of hook_views_pre_build()

ViewExecutable::build in core/modules/views/src/ViewExecutable.php

Builds the query for the view.

File

core/modules/views/views.api.php, line 739

Code

function hook_views_pre_build(ViewExecutable $view) {
  // Because of some inexplicable business logic, we should remove all
  // attachments from all views on Mondays.
  // (This alter could be done later in the execution process as well.)
  if (date('D') == 'Mon') {
    unset($view->attachment_before);
    unset($view->attachment_after);
  }
}

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