By ardee-1 on

Right now, you can go to a page like www.example.com/taxonomy/term/19. If you have pathauto, the same page will come up if you go to www.example.com/species/cat (or something like that).

How do you, the site developer, modify what that page looks like? I want it to be a customized table of node teasers (with paging) with columns of my choosing. I know how to customize pages individually but how to do it for any conceivable page generated by such a path?

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dman commented

I dunno if it's just today, but
Duplicates:
http://drupal.org/node/131039 (use views)
http://drupal.org/node/131246 (over-ride it with your own module)

I too am not sure yet.

.dan.
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ardee-1 commented

Thanks dman. One of those discussions IS quite similar to what I'm trying to do.

Basically I want a customized table instead of the list of teasers that you get automatically. I could get it easily if the URL ended with "?term=#" instead of "/#" because then the term id would be a parameter i could grab in my page's code. (The page is already written but I don't know how to get it invoked for clicks that request list of nodes in a taxonomy -- e.g., from a menu or from tagadelic.)

I think a tiny tweak to the Taxonomy Redirect module might do it for me. I've posted a request to its author.

Or perhaps there's a Drupal trick to make a path like "x/y" automatically turn into "x?q=y" or something like that -- which would essentially be the OPPOSITE of what you get when you enable Clean URLs!

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dman commented

Yes, a very neat drupally trick.

If you've caught the request with a menu

    $items[] = array('path' => 'taxonomy/term',
      'title' => t('Taxonomy term'),
      'callback' => 'taxonomy_term_page',
      'access' => user_access('access content'),
      'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);

and sent it to your func:

function taxonomy_term_page($str_tids = '', $depth = 0, $op = 'page') {
  $terms = taxonomy_terms_parse_string($str_tids);
  ...
  ..

Then a request to /taxonomy/term/17
will send each item found in the remaining path as args to your callback and invoke taxonomy_term_page(17);

:-B

/taxonomy/term/17/made/up/stuff
->
taxonomy_term_page(17,'made','up','stuff')

You can also get the whole lot via the args() function. Don't mess with GET - it's already been parsed for you.

.dan.
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ardee-1 commented

dman, I don't fully understand your post (sorry, I'm dense sometimes).

I don't get the reference to "you've caught the request with a menu". Does that imply that I'm writing a module? (I'm not.) I don't understand the array, either.

But I think I've solved my issue. See my post entitled "Yup" at http://drupal.org/node/131039.

If I run into problems with my approach, I'll post here again. Otherwise, consider the method I discuss there to be successful.

Thanks!