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Hi,

I have some users which registered with for example 24 characters long user name. If they are viewing their user name account page, they see their name in full length. But when they post some story, there is only 17 characters of their name shown - 14 characters from name plus 3 characters "..." so result is:

original user name: Mgr. Hana Bekarkova
name above story posted: Mgr. Hana Beka...

So I'm using the latest release of the nodewords module, and I would like to integrate it with tagadelic, to display a tag cloud of my nodewords. I have made this decision because nodewords allows for user inputed, free form tags/keywords that serve as a dual function in setting the meta info for the page (shooting two birds down with one stone).

However the only example of using tagadelic, to display a tag cloud, is using vocabulary terms to display the cloud. I would like to avoid that, since I would like my site wide vocab to be more rigid and uniform. I have tried to modify the PHP snippet, but I really don't know how to call up nodeword data. Here is the tagadelic recipe I found, to display a tag cloud based off of vocab:

<?php ...
$voc[] = 8; //  id of the vocabulary of which you want to display a tag cloud
$output = theme('tagadelic_weighted',tagadelic_get_weighted_tags($voc));
print $output;
?>

Based off of some preliminary research nodewords inputs keywords into a table called "nodewords" and inside a field called "nodewords" again. How can I call up the field from that table using the above PHP snippet? Or would I need a completely different snippet recipe? Also, could their be a way that it pools all the nodeword data and not just a single one as indicated by the line: "$voc[] = 8;"? I feel that this is a very useful question that maybe of use to others around too.

I have installed "pathauto" module, and create new vocabulary "software". Next I add new term "Linux" and get next messages:

Created new alias Software/linux for taxonomy/term/1
Created new term linux.

It OK. When I go to url "http://mydomain/software/linux" , it responses well. I see content of "linux"term.

But here is still such link to "software/linux" in MENU as http://mydomain/taxonomy_menu/1/1

Okay, so, I'm a super newb. But! I have managed to yank an old P3 450 out of the closet, install ubuntu 5.10 on it and I am running:

drupal 4.6.3
apache 2.0.54
PHP 5 (apt-get ver?) note: someone please tell me how to find versions
mysql (same)
postfix

Everything is running great...so far. When I create a test user, it sends the e-mail. This is much better than trying to run all this on my windows box, what more could I ask for? This:

Could anyone provide me with some links or ideas on how to utilize related terms and get those terms to display, ideally with other terms in the category description of nodes

It seems like related terms could be very powerful, but its a little confusing in the documentation how they are actually implemented. Nothing seems to happen in the drupal interface to indicate related terms when I start declaring related terms in a specific vocab and then tag nodes??

Are there php variables to recall related terms in a theme template? (phptemplate ideally or xtemplate)

Thanks

I am in the process of developing a module for a Drupal-based site that I am building. I was reading the hooks documentation and came accross hook_node_types() and am trying to figure out if this might be useful to me. Can someone give a concise description of how these node types can then be used or preferably point me to an example of them in use?

Thanks,
CS