Recently, we inherited a Drupal 6 site via a client of ours and ran into a pretty irritating bug with the Location module.
The site had been configured to allow users to create profiles using Node Profile along with the Location to allow users to input their street addresses.
Anyway, the issue was that when we created a View that included Location fields the fields were always rendering as blank even when we confirmed there was data in the database. A bit of poking around lead to this issue.
It turns out that due to an optimization in CCK or Views that the tables that have the data for the location fields are not getting JOIN’ed in when the view is executed. Unfortunately, the patch provided on the issue doesn’t work on the latest 3.x release of the Location module.
The fix that worked for us is #14 (copied below)
/**
* Preprocess hook for location().
*/
function yourtheme_preprocess_location(&$variables) {
if (!isset($variables['location']['name']) && isset($variables['location']['lid'])) {
$variables['location'] = array_merge($variables['location'], location_load_location($variables['location']['lid']));
template_preprocess_location($variables);
}
}
Basically, you’ll need to add the above snippet to a template.php file in your theme and change the name to reflect the theme you’re using. What this function does is basically pre-process the location fields to pull in the data so that the View will work properly.
Anyway, enough blogging it’s football time.