function view::preview

Preview the given display, with the given arguments.

To be called externally, probably by an AJAX handler of some flavor. Can also be called when views are embedded, as this guarantees normalized output.

File

includes/view.inc, line 1158

Class

view

An object to contain all of the data to generate a view, plus the member functions to build the view query, execute the query and render the output.

Code

function preview($display_id = NULL, $args = array()) {
    $timer_id = 'preview' . $display_id;
    timer_start($timer_id);
    if (empty($this->current_display) || !empty($display_id) && $this->current_display != $display_id) {
        if (!$this->set_display($display_id)) {
            return FALSE;
        }
    }
    $this->preview = TRUE;
    $this->pre_execute($args);
    // Preview the view.
    $output = $this->display_handler
        ->preview();
    $this->post_execute();
    vpr("{$this->name} execute time: " . timer_read($timer_id) . " ms");
    timer_stop($timer_id);
    return $output;
}