By iansears on
Drupal v5.10
I was deep into an e-commerce install and added the module "Categories". Only then did I realize hat I was seing NO (zero) references to Taxonomy at all in my install. Put another way, shouldn't I be able to simply look at "Administer -> Taxonomies" and see a module there that I should be able to configure?
Where do I look to configure my taxonomies?
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if you installed the
if you installed the category module (this one: http://drupal.org/project/category) you should have read that it is incompatible with the core taxonomy module and the book module and replaces them with its own taxonomy and book modules.
Taxonomy and book should be visible in the admin/build/modules page, and the installation instructions of the category module say that if you want to use any modules dependent on taxonomy or book, then you must do some setting in the category module to use the replacement modules that it supplies.
This is one reason for which many people avoid the category module, in spite of its great features.
Thank you
Thank you, cog.rusty, for answering this.
I think we were posting our replies at the same time there.
Any idea what other posts mean by the "e-commerce categories module"? because it does not sound like the "categories" module that I just mucked around with.
If you haven't yet, be sure
If you haven't yet, be sure to consider the Ubercart module versus e-Commerce. I cannot speak from experience but the "general" feel I get from what I read is that Ubercart is currently the preferred choice for most people (though e-Commerce is better for certain specific situations)... you'll have to check into it for proper details, and decide which best suits your needs.
So far as categories, I don't know about e-Commerce module (though couldn't imagine it not having categories, probably harnessing Drupal core taxonomy), but from Ubercart's page it says "Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages and a block to display product categories".
And to second what cog.rusty said, I also avoid Category module for the same reasons he mentioned.
-- David
absolutecross.com
[new guide/lesson in progress: Creating a CCK and Views powered Drupal site - feedback welcome]
I don't know much about
I don't know much about e-commerce. Do you have a link to what people were saying about an "e-commerce categories module"?
He might have been referring
He might have been referring to my post below where I "speculated" about maybe an e-Commerce submodule that controls categories for it (since he kept calling the module "Categories" not "Category" I thought he might have been referring to a sub-module of some sort). I just installed e-Commerce though simply to have a look and there is no such sub-module after all, so my theory was wrong (and as it turns out he was just referring to Category after all). Documentation on e-Commerce doesn't help much so I couldn't easily find out how it sets up categorization of products to offer any suggestion... it appears to be simple with Ubercart though.
-- David
absolutecross.com
[new guide/lesson in progress: Creating a CCK and Views powered Drupal site - feedback welcome]
Rookie answers own question?
Ok, The core file set comes with the module "Taxonomy". (which was missing for me and now I know why)
I installed a Module called "Categories". Categories overwrites the Core Taxonomy module with it's own by the same name. So, I first diabled all of the modules in my new "Categories" module, and ran update.php.
Then, using FTP, I deleted the sites -> default -> modules -> categories directory that I had uploaded to use (that module).
Then, I hunted around in the root directory -> modules -> and found the directory "taxonomy". I deleted taxonomy.info, and deleted taxonomy.module and renamed the files of same name that had been appended with the suffix of ".old" to no longer use that appended suffix.
Finally, I returned to administrator -> Modules and there was my "Taxonomy" module finally.
I hope this is as simple as maybe I overlooked a line or two in directions of the "categories" module readme.txt, because I just lost about 6 hours to this, um, oversight. I apologize if I come across as a bit... cross.
Solved.
Now, anyone know how to (like every shopping cart worth its salt) how to create a page of product categories that can THEN be clicked into? Can e-commerce be this far off?
Taxonomy module comes with
Taxonomy module comes with Drupal core, and in Drupal 5 it is at admin/content/taxonomy (though the menu in 5 calls it "Categories"... in 6 it is just called Taxonomy).
Now, the Category module is completely different if that's what you installed... it is a 3rd party module and I'm not sure on the details for that (I tried it on a site a while back and disliked it). If "Categories" is a sub-module of e-Commerce you installed (I'm not familiar with it really) then that might be related to Taxonomy, though Drupal's core taxonomy page would still be the same as mentioned above.
-- David
absolutecross.com
[new guide/lesson in progress: Creating a CCK and Views powered Drupal site - feedback welcome]