taxonomy

How to implement dynamic taxonomy navigation / hierarchical drop down list using ajax/jQuery?

I'd like to provide my users a way to navigate a taxonomy by successively drill down ono drop down lists. A simple example would be something like ebay's categories. Say you pick the category "Clothing", the next drop down list would display all the sub-categories under Clothing such as "Shorts", "Pants", "Coats" etc. And this can go on...

Drupal: cck taxonomy field with depth filtering

In views, is it possible to configure a cck taxonomy field so that a user search for higher level taxonomy terms also matches its parents? Say that I have this taxonomy called Places: Asia China Shanghai Beijing Japan Tokyo Nagoya Indonesia Bandung Banjar Europe France ...

How to use tree menu in taxonomy menu (JavaScript)?

I try to use this tree menu in taxonomy menu[tree menu][1] First I add js files to drupal and i add a node to the tree by using add functionn.add(16, 8, 'mytitle', 'cat/16');It works well. The first param is node id and the second is a number referring to the parent node. The value for the root node has to be -1. But i try use this tr...

Drupal Exclude taxonomy listing pages from search.

I have a Drupal 5 site that needs to have has taxonomny listing pages excluded in the search results. For instance http://site.com/category/role/guest-speaker returns a listing of all of the nodes tagged with guest-speak in the vocabulary role. I tried Advanced Search module. This just prevents searching for terms. I then had a hunc...

Standards for taxonomy terms or categories

Every time I build an ecommerce application I need to invest a considerable amount of time into categorising products. Factors such as ambiguoty, duplication and subjectivity can often lead to rework and wasted time. Are there any standards available (such as ISOs) that can be applied to categorising products like computer or car parts ...

Creating Drupal taxonomy terms from code?

What is the function used to create taxonomy terms in Drupal from the code? ...

drupal - add select/option list to a form

I am a bit confused. I have created a simple form with a one text box and a submit button. Now I want to add a select/option dropdown box of taxonomy terms, using the taxonomy_get_vocabularies() function. $vocabularies = taxonomy_get_vocabularies('my_type'); My question is how do I get vocabulary list onto form "the Drupal way". T...

Drupal node_save and special characters.

Hello, i'm trying to create nodes and taxonomy terms through a custom php script by using the node_save() function. I'm working on drupal 6. It's working well (thanks to previous questions on stackoverflow) except for accented letters. Indeed, when a title or a taxonomy term contain "é", "è" or "à", the sentence is cut before those sp...

Drupal workflow action access integrated with taxonomy access control?

I am building a DMS for our intranet and use a taxonomy hierarchy because we need access control that way. All company locations manage (upload,edit) their own documents but should be able to access all. This is inherited to the child terms and works fine. Additionally we want simple 3-step workflow (draft,published,archived). So i intr...

drupal taxonomy

I have several different content type nodes (videos, image galleries, stories...) that I would like to categorize and create a top-level page that aggregates these nodes. So for example, the top-level page would have teaser thumbnails very similar to the front page view but of course filtered for that topic (like for instance automobile...

pager problem with drupal and taxonomy

Ok, so this is probably a silly question, but i thought i'd put it out there anyway: I know it's a strange solution to a simple problem, but i needed to control the listing of the nodes in the taxonomy pages, which i didn't feel i got the traditional way. So i went ahead and created a module that fetches the nodes based on taxonomy (taxo...

How to extract keywords from a body of text in PHP

Currently I'm leveraging http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html which isn't ideal for performance and quality reasons. Before I embark on spending time on writing a system I wanted to see if there are any other available options that can do the trick. ...

Drupal Hierarchical Content

I am currently looking at using either the Taxonomy or CCK module on my Drupal site as a means to create a hierarchical system. However, I'm a little confused on which one would best suit my needs, or if there is something else that would work better. Basically, there will be probably 70 or so "mini-sites" on the website I'm working on,...

How can I theme the taxonomy/term/x page?

Although it was easy to find some info online about how to theme other stuff (e.g. search results), it is impossible to find a straightforward article about how to theme the output of a taxonomy/term/247 page? How can I do it? ...

Can Drupal terms in different Taxonomies be synonymous?

Let's say Taxonomy_A is associated to Node_Type_A Taxonomy_B is associated to Node_Type_B. AND Both Taxonomy_A and Taxonomy_B have a term called 'yellow'. Is it possible to make terms 'yellow' synonymous, so that if I'm looking at a list of 'yellow' stuff, I'm seeing content of both types (Node_Type_A, and Node_Type...

Can Drupal Taxonomy module be used to categorize court records and briefs?

I'm currently working on a project that involves moving a database of documents for court records and briefs over to a Drupal environment. One of the problems that we are faced with is how to index these documents. In our court district, records and briefs all have a docket number which is assigned to a case. The interesting thing is ...

Is it possible to make a branch of a Taxonomy tag-able while other parts are not in Drupal 6?

We want to use only one vocabulary to organize the entire site. The vocabulary will have a hierarchy and We're hoping that the terms for a specific branch of the vocabulary tree can be tag-able. For example, suppose that in our Vocabulary we have a term called "Blog Tags", is it possible to make "Blog Tags" the parent term and have a...

drupal body class

drupal version is 6. just want to know where are those $body_classes comes form. I knew in template_preprocess_page , there is a variable called 'body_classes'. but my problem is, not all body_classes are come from preprocess page. for instance: I have a term named 'activities and attractions', then in my page.tpl.php, there is a cla...

in relation to web development, what is a taxonomy?

Can people explain what taxonomy means in terms of a web site? My current understanding it a classification of the contents in relationship to each other, but it seems like it must go beyond that simplistic definition. and yes, I have read the wikipedia entry for this. ...

How should important terms be emphasized in documentation?

Software will often introduce and formalize concepts that may have ambiguous definitions in the real world. For example, in an attendance tracking system, an Occurrence refers to an Excused Absence, an Unexcused Absence, or a Tardy. In technical documentation (both in helper text and in user guides, etc), should these concepts be proper...