Just a quickie - embedding views in PHP snippets etc. Sometimes blocks or panels don't quite cut the mustard and we need to directly insert a view via some PHP.

I started off here - the method I've used before to achieve this. There's another howto on Innovating Tomorrow. However, views_build_view, and indeed theme_view, are both no longer part of Views...

After a bit of searching I found mention of a new function; its also mentioned in the Views 2 documentation (work in progress).

So, the resulting PHP is wonderfully simple:

<a href="http://www.php.net/print"><span style="color: #000066;">print</span></a> views_embed_view<span style="color: #66cc66;">(</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">$view_name</span>, <span style="color: #0000ff;">$display_id</span> = <span style="color: #ff0000;">'default'</span><span style="color: #66cc66;">)</span>;

I was tearing my beard out, so I hope this helps someone.

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