function hook_views_pre_view

3.x views.api.php hook_views_pre_view(&$view, &$display_id, &$args)
2.x docs.php hook_views_pre_view(&$view, &$display_id, &$args)

This hook is called at the very beginning of views processing, before anything is done.

Adding output to the view can be accomplished by placing text on $view->attachment_before and $view->attachment_after.

Related topics

Views' hooks
Hooks that can be implemented by other modules in order to implement the Views API.
1 invocation of hook_views_pre_view()
view::pre_execute in includes/view.inc
Run attachments and let the display do what it needs to do prior to running.

File

docs/docs.php, line 581
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_pre_view(&$view, &$display_id, &$args) {
  // example code here
}