Display a view

$view = views_get_view("xxx");
echo $view->execute_display();


Create a view

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'frontpage';
$view->description = 'Emulates the default Drupal front page; you may set the default home page path to this view to make it your front page.';
$view->tag = 'default';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
'sticky' => array(
'id' => 'sticky',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'sticky',
'order' => 'DESC',
),
'created' => array(
'id' => 'created',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'created',
'order' => 'DESC',
'relationship' => 'none',
'granularity' => 'second',
),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
'promote' => array(
'id' => 'promote',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'promote',
'operator' => '=',
'value' => '1',
'group' => 0,
'exposed' => FALSE,
'expose' => array(
'operator' => FALSE,
'label' => '',
),
),
'status' => array(
'id' => 'status',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'status',
'operator' => '=',
'value' => '1',
'group' => 0,
'exposed' => FALSE,
'expose' => array(
'operator' => FALSE,
'label' => '',
),
),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
'type' => 'none',
'role' => array(),
'perm' => '',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('header_format', '1');
$handler->override_option('footer_format', '1');
$handler->override_option('empty_format', '1');
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('row_plugin', 'node');
$handler->override_option('row_options', array(
'teaser' => 1,
'links' => 1,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page');
$handler->override_option('path', 'frontpage');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('feed', 'Feed', 'feed');
$handler->override_option('title', 'Front page feed');
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'rss');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
'mission_description' => 1,
'description' => '',
));
$handler->override_option('row_plugin', 'node_rss');
$handler->override_option('row_options', array(
'item_length' => 'default',
));
$handler->override_option('path', 'rss.xml');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
));
$handler->override_option('displays', array(
'default' => 'default',
'page' => 'page',
));
$handler->override_option('sitename_title', '1');