Grav Plugin - View

View is a Grav plugin that allows you find a page and send the collection to a template.

Watch the Intro Video

Features

• Pass parameters to a collection for complete control.
• Assign any template to any view.
• Add views to modular pages, allowing you to manage, order, etc.

Installation

Installing the View plugin can be done in one of two ways. Our GPM (Grav Package Manager) installation method enables you to quickly and easily install the plugin with a simple terminal command, while the manual method enables you to do so via a zip file.

GPM Installation (Preferred)

The simplest way to install this plugin is via the Grav Package Manager (GPM) through your system's Terminal (also called the command line). From the root of your Grav install type:

bin/gpm install view

This will install the View plugin into your /user/plugins directory within Grav. Its files can be found under /your/site/grav/user/plugins/view.

Manual Installation

To install this plugin, just download the zip version of this repository and unzip it under /your/site/grav/user/plugins. Then, rename the folder to view. You can find these files on GitHub.

You should now have all the plugin files under

/your/site/grav/user/plugins/view

NOTE: This plugin is a modular component for Grav which requires Grav, the Error and Problems plugins, and a theme to be installed in order to operate.

Usage

1. Add modular to modular page
2. Select 'View' as Modular Template
3. Specify a page. Optionally, you can specify a template, pagination, and parameters.
4. If you specify a template, you will need to create it in your theme, /your/site/grav/user/themes/templates/<template>, where template is the path of your specified template.

Using Parameters

You can also add parameters to the collection, allowing you complete control over the view collection:

items:
    '@taxonomy.category': 'Animals'

View Template

You will have the view variable available to you, which contains the items and settings.

• view.items - The view's collection items.
• view.settings - The settings used to build the collection items.

A simple template may look like so:

<h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
<ul>
    {% for item in view.collection %}
        <li>{{ item.title }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

Default View Template

You can also define a default template as a fallback in the plugin configuration )http://example.com/admin/plugins/view).

Page collections are very powerful here, and allow you to filter the output of the page collection into your view.

Updating

As development for View continues, new versions may become available that add additional features and functionality, improve compatibility with newer Grav releases, and generally provide a better user experience. Updating View is easy, and can be done through Grav's GPM system, as well as manually.

GPM Update (Preferred)

The simplest way to update this plugin is via the Grav Package Manager (GPM). You can do this with this by navigating to the root directory of your Grav install using your system's Terminal (also called command line) and typing the following:

bin/gpm update view

This command will check your Grav install to see if your View plugin is due for an update. If a newer release is found, you will be asked whether or not you wish to update. To continue, type y and hit enter. The plugin will automatically update and clear Grav's cache.

Manual Update

Manually updating View is pretty simple. Here is what you will need to do to get this done:

• Delete the your/site/user/plugins/view directory.
• Downalod the new version of the View plugin from GitHub.
• Unzip the zip file in your/site/user/plugins and rename the resulting folder to view.
• Clear the Grav cache. The simplest way to do this is by going to the root Grav directory in terminal and typing bin/grav clear-cache.