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By smigdig on
Hey all:
I'm looking to create a very simple content type involving a few text entry lines which will auto-create a content taxonomy/hierarchy for a comment and a quantitative rating of 1-5.
Below is an explanation along with a graphic of the potential hierarchy, with finite examples. It essence, it would be infinite across all levels.
As a user enters data for the first few form entries of the single content type, a hierarchy should be automatically created. Options for entering the data should be based on previous user entries, and already created taxonomy (i.e. options would pop from a list based on what the user types, to which a users entry would be added if it didn't already exist). Also, there should be the option to create more subdivisions within a level, as each user may have need more levels to fulfill his/her hierarchy.
Finally, I would like to create a block on the sidebar which showcases the name of each of the parent levels, as well as all the peers on that particular level the user is browsing.
***Linked here is a picture of the proposed taxonomy/hierarchy interaction as well as an example of the content type entry form with notes on its involvement.
http://www.ryanadamdesign.com/TaxonomyHierarchy.jpg
I would dearly appreciate any advice as I have been research Drupal and Taxonomy to no avail... I have worked a bit with Taxonomy dhtml but it as well is not capable enough.
Thank you,
Adam
Comments
interesting stuff
i was reading this again, hoping to offer you some better to places to look - and here's what i'm getting:
user creates a node on the fly and you want the input fields (various ones) to autoproduce taxonomies and all of that...but in reality, you may be able to work around this by thinking of the cck field as a taxonomy item that is simply editable...
i could have this all wrong, but i would initially steer you toward these modules (plus cck of course)
http://drupal.org/project/cck_taxonomy (cck taxonomy fields, which will support your hierarchical sorting needs per your image)
http://drupal.org/project/cck_taxonomy_ssu (similar - but apparently more super!! - of particular interest: supports free tagging, allows those free tags to be sorted in hierarchical ways - could be great for you)
http://drupal.org/project/editablefields (multiple applications for what you're doing, depends on what you're doing though)
as for ratings, check out fivestar (per your image) with votingapi module...
as far as throwing into a block, if you've got the hierarchy built around some kind of vocabulary, then you could check out any of the assorted php block snippets in the documentation on drupal for showing X terms in a block in any certain way and so on (there are many snippets there for you to cut and paste and modify) - or you could poke around with views for more interesting displays...
btw
an awesome handbook page for you to read: http://drupal.org/node/212834