Drupal Taxonomy module explained!
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006Drupal Taxonomy module allows you to organise topics into categories and sub-categories.
How does it work?
First you have to a add a Vocabulary, and then, add terms against each vocabulary.
What is Vocabulary ?
Vocabulary is category-type. For example, for a shopping site like eBay, you will add two different vocabularies.
1. Product
2. Location
What are terms?
Terms are categories organised in hierarchial order against each vocabulary.
Like in this example, add product categories (like accessories )/sub-categories (like Sunglasses ) against Product vocabulary.
Also add country name/province-name/city-name against the location vocabulary.
Now you are able to list your products based on product-category ( product vocabulary ) as well as location of stores (location vocabulary).
i.e., it is possible to search for stores selling Sunglasses under Accessories (i.e., terms under product vocabulary) in the Florida/USA ( i.e., terms under location vocabulary )
To start using taxonomy module, simply login to your Drupal control panel, go to administer -> category. Now Add vocabulary and Add terms under that vocabulary.
NOTE!
Vocabulary is not the top level category, rather, it is category-type.
And terms are the actual categories.
It will take little time to get accustomed with taxonomy module, but once done, you will realise the power of this Drupal module.