By 01mf02 on
Hello! I want to make some kind of web link collection myself with CCK (the links modules didn't prove sufficient), and I have the following problem:
How to make a page that lists the different link categories? The link categories should be clickable and should lead you to a custom view of all links that were registered in the category.
For example:
User clicks on Navigation item "Web links"
New page appears with categories "Nice web links" and "Bad web links"
User clicks on "Bad web links"
New page appears with all links that have been categorized as "Bad web links" - user may select different sorting criteria now
Thanks in advance!
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Just my experience
For navigation trees, with really EXISTING category-pages allowing all kinds of customization (as oposed to Taxonomy, which degrades index pages to mere metadata, and so limits navigation to just a bunch of search-results with no title page), I use the Category module. It's big, pretty good in a way, and rather buggy at the same time. Maybe too big for your purpose, and maybe not. Take this as my tip to consider. See the navigation-trees on my site as example: http://naturista.cz/drupal/?q=clanky http://naturista.cz/drupal/?q=regions http://naturista.cz/drupal/?q=seznamka - each one a bit different, for a different purpose.
P.S. It's best in conjunction with the excellent Views module, but be warned: This module-co-operation is pretty buggy :-/
Hmmm ...
The Category module seems to be exactly what I want - would you recommend me to use the latest official release of the development snapshot?
But thanks for your reply anyway!
I'm not sure
Our web runs the 5.x-1.1 stable release, upgraded recently from a similar 4.7.x config, and I never had enough time to download different versions and test. Seems to me though, that there wouldn't be much difference in neither functionality not amount of bugs (my impression, which might be mistaken as well - they say the new versions to be just "maintenance releases", and honestly, I can't see any new functionality - and - On 5.x-1.1 I patched problems known to me already from 4.7.x, with some of the patches easily accepted by the Maintainer also for -dev and HEAD: Probaly not many great changes going on inside... But then again, Category module would be really excellent as is now, if it only just get debugged enough - which the Maintainer seems to be very supportive of, if given some patches to consider.)
Making the long story short: I've choosen the stable relase, met some bugs on the way, but still never regretted the choice.
before going down that road...
you might want to give taxonomy context module (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_context) a try. I went to category first, then had to reload my site to back out of it when I decided it wasn't what I needed. Category module is a major structure shift, taxonomy context isnt. as always, ymmv. good luck.
Taxonomy
I did try to go from Category to Taxonomy once (yes, it's possible to convert data, somehow), but I didn't find any way to get a similar functionality, especially when it comes to the navigational pages:
Vocabulary is never a page, but I needed a sort of "overview title pages" for single sections of the web, including catrgory-tree overview, together with introduction-text (including pictures - see here: http://naturista.cz/drupal/?q=seznamka ). The Container pages (Category module) are exactly the solution, while with Taxonomy it's somehow impossible. Category pages might by simulated on Taxonomy terms by Views (with a header on page-view, although it's limited and not much comfortable for webmaster), but Vocabulary is "nothing" to provide an extra page.
Category vs. Taxonomy
I think I'll test them both, but judging from the available resources (demonstration pages, documentation, functionality) I am more leaning towards Category. Thanks you two for input - I'll post my experiences here!
Okay, Category is the way to
Okay, Category is the way to go. I just had some trouble because I forgot to activate some Category modules, namely Category menu and Category display.
hmmm...
maybe ill put category back up on one of my dev sites and play around with it then. thanks for the update.