Calling a View programatically

This is useful for just loading a view programatically: https://api.drupal.org/api/views/views.module/function/views_embed_view/7 This is the one to use for altering the view and calling it programatically https://api.drupal.org/api/views/views.module/function/views_get_view/7 http://karenziv.com/2011/10/drupal-calling-a-view-programmatically/