Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 7.x-3.x views.api.php \hook_views_api()

Register View API information. This is required for your module to have its include files loaded; for example, when implementing hook_views_default_views().

Return value

An array with the following possible keys:

  • api: (required) The version of the Views API the module implements.
  • path: (optional) If includes are stored somewhere other than within the root module directory or a subdirectory called includes, specify its path here.
  • template path: (optional) A path where the module has stored it's views template files. When you have specificed this key views automatically uses the template files for the views. You can use the same naming conventions like for normal views template files.

Related topics

Views' hooks
Hooks that can be implemented by other modules in order to implement the Views API.
1 function implements hook_views_api()

Note: this list is generated by pattern matching, so it may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.

views_views_api in includes/handlers.inc
Implementation of hook_views_api().

File

docs/docs.php, line 286
This file contains no working PHP code; it exists to provide additional documentation for doxygen as well as to document hooks in the standard Drupal manner.

Code

function hook_views_api() {
  return array(
    'api' => 2,
    'path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'example') . '/includes/views',
    'template path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'example') . 'themes',
  );
}