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Much thanks to http://www.gregeisenman.info/ with link at http://www.gregeisenman.info/blogs/greg/views-2-and-drupal-adding-custom-field-views-query.

In case that link goes down, it involved using hook_views_api() and hook_views_data().

Here is what I did:

In my custom module’s .module file (mymodule.module) I added an implementation of hook_views_api():

/**
* Implementation of hook_views_api().
*/
function mymodule_views_api() {
return array(
'api' => 2,
'path' =>
drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule'),
);
}
?>


Then, I added a views.inc file to my modules folder named mymodule.views.inc.

I then added the following code to expose two fields from my custom module to the view and to the view filters. In the code below, the is the name of a table used to store data for my custom module. It joins to node directly. I used an INNER join, but that can be removed to default to a LEFT JOIN.

/**
* Implementation of hook_views_data().
*/
function mymodule_views_data() {
$data['‘] = array(
‘table’ => array(
‘group’ => ‘My Custom Data’,
‘title’ => ‘‘,
‘join’ => array(
‘node’ => array(
‘type’ => ‘INNER’,
‘left_field’ => ‘nid’,
‘field’ => ‘nid’,
),
),
),
‘name’ => array(
‘title’ => t(’name’),
‘help’ => t(’A name generated
by the mymodule module.’),
‘field’ => array(
‘handler’ => ‘views_handler_field’,
‘click sortable’ => TRUE,
),
// Information for accepting a value as a filter
‘filter’ => array(
‘handler’ => ‘views_handler_filter_string’,
),
// Information for sorting on a value.
’sort’ => array(
‘handler’ => ‘views_handler_sort’,
),
),
‘description’ => array(
‘title’ => t(’description’),
‘help’ => t(’An abstract generated
by the mymodule module.’),
‘field’ => array(
‘handler’ => ‘views_handler_field’,
‘click sortable’ => TRUE,
),
// Information for accepting a value as a filter
‘filter’ => array(
‘handler’ => ‘views_handler_filter_string’,
),
// Information for sorting on a value.
’sort’ => array(
‘handler’ => ‘views_handler_sort’,
),
),
);

return $data;
}
?>

That is the quick and dirty on how I go it going in my project. Thanks again to http://www.gregeisenman.info/ for http://www.gregeisenman.info/blogs/greg/views-2-and-drupal-adding-custom-field-views-query.

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