Constructs a drupal_render() style array from an array of loaded nodes.
$nodes: An array of nodes as returned by node_load_multiple().
$view_mode: View mode, e.g. 'full', 'teaser'...
$weight: An integer representing the weight of the first node in the list.
$langcode: (optional) A language code to use for rendering. Defaults to NULL which is the global content language of the current request.
An array in the format expected by drupal_render().
function node_view_multiple($nodes, $view_mode = 'teaser', $weight = 0, $langcode = NULL) {
$build = array();
$entities_by_view_mode = entity_view_mode_prepare('node', $nodes, $view_mode, $langcode);
foreach ($entities_by_view_mode as $entity_view_mode => $entities) {
field_attach_prepare_view('node', $entities, $entity_view_mode, $langcode);
entity_prepare_view('node', $entities, $langcode);
foreach ($entities as $entity) {
$build['nodes'][$entity->nid] = node_view($entity, $entity_view_mode, $langcode);
}
}
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
$build['nodes'][$node->nid]['#weight'] = $weight;
$weight++;
}
// Sort here, to preserve the input order of the entities that were passed to
// this function.
uasort($build['nodes'], 'element_sort');
$build['nodes']['#sorted'] = TRUE;
return $build;
}