Our Views plugin challenge has just finished, and we got some great submissions for you to check out.

The Challenge

Thank the good lord for Views (which is now in Drupal core!). If it wasn't for Views, we'd be writing custom queries to list data all the time. Sometimes, though, Views doesn't do exactly what you need it to do, and when that happens you'll have to create either a handler or a plugin. Views has 10 different types of plugins! For this challenge, you pick any type you want, and create something useful. The submission that does something useful and is well explained in a screencast / text gets the win. Get crackin'

The Winner

We had a few great submissions, but Mike Miles submitted an excellent module and accompanied it with an excellent description / screencast, which is why he's taking home our prize. Mike created an access plugin for views that uses a taxonomy reference on the user to control whether the user can see a view. His code and explanatory screencast are definitely worth checking out. There are two other great submissions that you can learn from as well. Mike earned himself a free year of hosting from DreamHost. Congrats!

Here's Mike's screencast so you can see the module in action:

Coming Up: Drush!

Our next contest calls for submissions with examples of Drush craziness. We want to see cool Drush integration for existing modules, new global drush commands, or even helpful drush scripts that you use in your workflow. Check it out!

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