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 1427

Class

view

An object to contain all of the data to generate a view.

Code

public function preview($display_id = NULL, $args = array()) {
    if (empty($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();
    return $output;
}