Views drupal description

The Views module version 2 alpha is not fully functional. It cannot upgrade older versions of Views, and it will not work on a site where Views version 1 is already installed unless that version is first uninstalled using the 'uninstall' command. Many features are still missing, but you can experiment with it for now. Currently, it seems that Views version 2 does not work on PHP4.

The Views module provides developers with flexible control over which lists to display, what data to show, how to filter it, and in what format. You can create lists from nodes and user profiles, build image galleries, and more. In Drupal, lists like taxonomy terms and recent site changes are hardcoded, but this module allows you to modify them or create entirely new ones.

This module essentially acts as a powerful query builder. Given enough information, it can construct a correct and appropriate query, execute it, and display the results. It includes four primary modes as well as a special mode, offering an impressive range of features.

You need the Views module if:

1. You like the default homepage layout but want to sort the content differently.
2. You like the default taxonomy term pages but want to change how documents are sorted—for example, alphabetically.
3. You use /tracker but want to restrict it to show only specific content types.
4. You like the Article module but want the articles displayed in a different way.
5. You want a block showing the last 5 posts of a certain content type.
6. You want users to see which forum posts they haven’t read yet.
7. You want a monthly archive, like those in Movable Type or WordPress, showing links like "Month, YYYY (X)", where YYYY is the year and X is the number of posts that month, and display those in a block. The links should lead to a list of posts from that month.