Globally filter the whole site by tag

Question

Hello!

I am looking for an easy way to allow visitors of our Drupal 6-based website to filter all displayed obejcts globally by a tag from a given taxonomy ("featured topics"). This way a user could eg. select the tag "marketing" from a drop-down-list, which is located somewhere near the navigation, and the system would filter all pages, lists and views by the selected tag, across the session, until the user unsets the filter. Having a filter set should be reflected by the theme, but that would be the next task, I guess.

Does anybody know a module which does something like that or could help me here? Is there any easy way to get this functionality (without hacking my way deeply through drupal's guts in weeks of hard work)?

Thank you in advance! Daniel

Answer 1

There are literally hundreds of modules that offer "filter by tag features". I am not aware of one that does what you wish as turnkey, but I am confident there is one that has exactly your interface and workflow, either OOTB, or configurable.

If you were considering views (you were, weren't you?) views offers so called "exposed filters" which allow any filter (filters being: created by Foo, edited after 24-dec, or _has tag Bar), where your users can select such filters from e.g. a dropdown box.