By FvanT on

I tried the taxonomy_dhtml module and it looks kinda what i want but like the look and behaviour of the drupal site better i.e. showing a list of nodes with module descriptions.

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It is not clear exactly what you wish to change.

If you want to change the appearance of the node teasers, read up on http://drupal.org/node/11816 node.tpl.php. If you are using CCK nodes, then the Contemplate project may be the answer.

If you want to change the _selection_ of nodes that appears on a given page, try the Views module.

With Views, CCK and theming, you should be able to do what you want.

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FvanT commented

reading my post again, i should have phrased more clearly.

I want a page (the CSS/theme is less important) showing exactly what this page on drupal.org does: http://drupal.org/project/Modules

In my case it will be Widgets iso Modules but the principle is the same, so I have created a Category and added Terms to it and tried several View options to create this page but i couldn't get it to work.

Then i tried the taxonomy_dhtml module which shows the amount of nodes for a given taxonomy term, which is what i want, but I prefer the same behaviour as on drupal.org

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Now I understand.

It is fairly simple to write a module to do that type of layout. You would basically be extending the taxonomy_dhtml module. You'd need a hook_menu() statement and a callback function to print the taxonomy_dhtml content.

I would think that a Views page might work. If that doesn't, the Panels module should. Panels lets you create a page with specific block content (in this case, the taxonomy_dhtml menu block) and only that content on it.

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FvanT commented

in the end was to use this php code:


$items = array();
$terms= array(23,24,25,26,27);
foreach ( $terms as $term ) { 
    $count = db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(nid) FROM {term_node} WHERE tid = %d", $term)); 
    $items[] = l( taxonomy_get_term($term)->name, "taxonomy/term/$term") . " ($count)";
}
if ( count($items) ) {  print theme('item_list', $items);}