Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. If you know how to extend it, well, you're golden. But how do all of Views' moving parts fit together?
This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins, handlers, and supporting new tables. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. There will be much reading of code.
If you look at the top-middle of the VIEWS interface there is a section labeled RELATIONSHIPS. Have you ever wondered what that is for? Well, we're going to dig in to it and show you.
First where going to build a content type that uses the Node_Reference field and create a few nodes. Then we're going to create a view that takes advantage of this.
