Hihi,

My boss asks me if he could add a medical dictionary ( around 30,000 terms ).
I use currently Glossary Module, not G2 for Drupal 5.

I saw G2 is built to manage thoussands terms.

I want to know how will be the performances with 30,000 terms.
Im afraid of the url alias and the way to display the letter A for example.

Drupal runs on Linux with Apache 2, MySQL 5 and with modules :
event
glossary
i18n
imce
pathauto
site_map
taxonomy_context
tinymce
node_privacybyrole
jstools

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fgm
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Location Paris, France
commented

I think your best bet is to try it: installing drupal with G2 is less than 20 minutes, usually, then you can generate content using the generation scripts in devel.module (never did this myself). It should not be long.

FWIW, the sample site at http://www.riff.org/glossaire has over 5600 terms on a shared hosting, if this can give you an order of magnitude evaluation.

Regarding URL aliases, G2 does not use the alias mechanism by default, but its own tables. On that same sample site, the longest page (I guess) is http://www.riff.org/g2/initial/S with over 500 entries, if you want to check it.

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IkI13 commented

Ok, I tried G2 this morning.

Firstable I saw G2 won't be release for Drupal 5 officially, but I saw too a link for the version 5 on project page.
I downloaded it and installed it (after creating a g2.info because Drupal didn't detect g2 folder)

I get some errors post-installation :
-I can't access to settings page of g2, it doesn't exist : /admin/settings/g2

-When I access to G2 Glossary Main Page, I have this error

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in C:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\theme.inc on line 566

It's a problem with link function l()

-When I want to create a G2 entry : /node/add/g2_entry :

warning: array_merge_recursive() [function.array-merge-recursive]: Argument #2 is not an array in C:\wamp\www\drupal\modules\node\node.module on line 2041.

and I don't have body text field !

Well, after that I checked the G2 forum, and the release notes for the version 5 and lol!

If I understand well, the g2 5.x-1.x-dev don't work with Drupal 5, is that correct ?
That would explain my errors :D

Thx

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fgm
Primary language French
Location Paris, France
commented

You do indeed understand well. As the release notes say:

"This release is only a placeholder, in case a version for Drupal 5 somehow comes to be created.
It is not an actual version for Drupal 5.x."

Now, what I suggest is that you try G2 on a 4.7 site to assess its adequation to your performance needs. Then, if it appears to be what you need:

  • either do the port to D5 yourself
  • or contract someone to do it (I can do this, contact me if interested)
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fgm
Primary language French
Location Paris, France
commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Apparently no further answer. Feel free to reopen if needed.

Just one thing to keep in mind: the D6 code freeze is almost upon us. Upgrading to D5 is therefore even less of a priority than it ever was.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)