Using Views to Generate A Taxonomy List

This looks perfect, jastraat. You're my hero.

But, is it just me, or is it strange that Views can't do this? Seems like it would be easy to implement. (Although, on second thought, views is good at listing nodes, but nothing else, sooo...maybe it's the wrong tool).

Anyway, thanks!

-Bob Christenson
Owner/Designer, Mustardseed Media, Inc.
MustardseedMedia.com

Nice and simple solution.

Quint

I'm also adding a comment so I can track this solution.

Wow, this is what I was looking for. Thanks. However, the selection does not take into account articles, etc, that are unpublished. For instance, if I have only one story under a certain term, and it's set to unpublished, it still shows up in the list along with the count in parenthesis. Perhaps the SQL could be modified to exclude unpublished articles?

Hello,

I updated from 4.5.3 to 5.3 and i got the same problem, my categories block disappeared.

Your code fix it but would be posible to order it with the last updated term? And would be posible to show the last updated in days, hours, minutes ( examples: 1 years 11 weeks ago , 1 days 16 hours ago)?

Thanks.

Thanks!

I have spent an entire day trying to figure out how to acheive this - generate a block with the terms for the category selections for a section! Two seconds of work and your answer is implemented and working! I had tried everything, searched many places and was totally frustrated.

Only thing I had to do was to add the code for if the term was empty and luckly I had a person with php knowledge available...
Just adding the line:

if ($count)

above the line: $items[] = l($term->name, "taxonomy/term/$term->tid") . " ($count)";

and - PERFECT!
Thanks sooooo much for sharing...

<?php
$vid = 1;  // Set the vid to the vocabulary id of the vocabulary you wish to list the terms from
$items = array();
$terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid);
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
    $count = db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(nid) FROM {term_node} WHERE tid = %d", $term->tid));
    $items[] = l($term->name, "taxonomy/term/$term->tid") . " ($count)";
}
if ( count($items) ) {  print theme('item_list', $items);}
?>

can you do this using the views UI?

I tried this, and the import views method and neither returned my list. when i go to the /taxonomy/term/# page i see my nodes, but the query in the php code, and in the views approach seems to return nothing.

I like the php approach better because I am very new to the views module.
This way i just change the $vid to my term number and save the block. am i doing something wrong?

This has answered my prayers. I does EXACTLY what I needed. I am building a directory of items that are all catagorized, then sub-categorized, then sub-catagorized again where the nodes ONLY exist in the last category. I wanted to allow users to click through categories until they reach the nodes. (Similar to the old Yahoo.com if anyone remembers that far back)

Now.. I've figured out how to use this code and blocks to do it for each subcategories page... but that requires creating a block for each and every cat/subcat. Is there a way to make this work generic so that I only need to create one block and then assign that single block to all my cat/subcat pages.

I guess what I am looking for is something that would set the parent value automatically based on something rather than me making multiple blocks like :

taxonomy_get_tree($vid,1,-1,1);
taxonomy_get_tree($vid,2,-1,1);
taxonomy_get_tree($vid,3,-1,1);
taxonomy_get_tree($vid,4,-1,1);
etc.

I found the same script in the book pages that jastraat kindly quoted, but there isn't an explanation of how to filter by content type. Has anyone come across this?
Some vocabularies can be used by more than one content type, and I want to just view the list for one of them - is this possible?
Thanks in advance for any help...

Whew...this node is a godsend...good thing I found it. I've been trying to create a professor rating system for a student-run website, and we've got each professor as a term within the category.

...kept running into your problem of having the duplicate terms.

I will try this and see if it works!

Exactly, I'm doing a demo. If I told them to add code somewhere, they'd turn green.

I need something like what lukathonic has put together: list of taxonomy terms only using views.

I'm tracking this thread too, I'm still looking for a solution for this issue.

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The %1 puts the taxonomy term name into the title for the "subview" (the view once it's given an argument and is showing you nodes for a particular term, not sure if that's the right word for it).
In other words, when you click on a term in the main view, and see the nodes for that term, the title is also the term.
To get a different title, change the %1 to something else. Eg, on my site I'm putting "News from %1" because the terms are village names.

but you don't want to hear it

Nancy W.
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I am getting the same problem with this view. Here's my view (still contains a lot of the text and settings from the original example):

All it does is show my taxonomy terms that begin with A, and it repeats the taxonomy term for each time it is attached to a node. E.g.,:
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Aa (1)
- Ac (1)
- Ac (1)
- Ac (1)
- Ac (1)
- Af (1)
- Af (1)

Am I missing something?

I have a bad feeling that this isn't intended behavior for the view, so it could disappear in future Views module releases.

Hi Nancy, I have seen your appreciation for jastraat's code in this thread at multiple places. Indeed it's simple and elegant, I appreciate that too. I also happened to view your modified version of code, which I would have liked to include here for instant reference but would not do so 'coz you have the right to post that!

Now two points in this context
1) Your code follows more or less same logic, but jastraat's code includes another logic - which permits printing, only where there are non zero no. of terms in the vocabulary, which you have skipped. On similar lines you have also done the trick to include terms with non zero no of nodes. Would it not be best to combine both? I could have done that, but you might prefer to post it yourself.
2) While theses codes are elegant, perhaps quicker too - yet assuming views are cached, wont using the view be faster (just due to caching)