Hello Friends,
I realize that this site is quite expansive and mostly any question can probably be found with enough searching.
I have a question that may have been repeated many times, sorry.
Will someone please explain the Taxonomy module to me. If I want to have a site that creates links to other members based on similarities (eye color, high school graduated from, state living in, gender, favorite movie, video game, etc., etc.)
Do I:
User Profile Customization > create all the necessary fields
Taxonomy > In the categories that were created in the Profile, recreate these and all potential matches in the Taxonomy?
Please give me a brief overview. I am not a coder and apparently need the Drupal Taxonomy explained in simpler step by step terms.
Thank you so much for your help!
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follow-up
friendster
or
http://www.snowboard-mag.com/user/679
for example
that is fascinating -
that is fascinating - thanks. I think I understand the profile module better after that example. But can I ask whether the site uses similar terms in its taxonomy? For instance
someone may have in their profile
Binding Brand:
Drake
But I would like to know if "Binding Brand" is also a vocabulary with "Drake" as a term.
Imagine say someone wants to write articles about bindings and associate one with "Drake"....
There is no connection
There is no connection between taxonomy and profile. This makes sense -- it would look pretty funny to have user profiles mixed up with articles/stories/etc.
You could, of course, make a separate vocabulary as you suggested and achieve the same effect.
Use the profile.module
Give the profile module a try. It shoudl satisfy your needs. I believe the snowboard site uses the profile module. I don't think there is a way to merge profiles and taxonomy, but I could be wrong.
Also, by trying out the profile module you will have a better idea of what you are talking about and can ask more informative questions.
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http://www.electroniclife.org/
Taxonomy Explained
And to answer the other part of your question...
Taxonomy in drupal is a bunch of categories. Categories can be linked to categories to make a parent-child relationship. Thats about it.
From there drupal allows the ability to assign different permissions to different root categories (vocabularies), and assign nodes and other things to categories (terms).
Does that help?
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http://www.electroniclife.org/
The links between users is
The links between users is all driven by the profile module, and has nothing to do with taxonomy.
thank you
thank you for your help understanding taxonomy vs profile linkage