By asb on

Hi,

is there a way to convert/synchronize taxonomy terms into full nodes, or at least to create a matching node if a term in a certain vocabulary is being created? The opposite of this already exists (Node Auto Term module).

Background of my question:

  • Descriptions for terms are somehow limited, compared to real nodes (that are "expandable" through CCK); taxonomy terms are also somehow crippled since parts of data entered can not be exposed to users (e.g. term relations). The CCK node reference field can provide exactly this already.
  • According to my observations, there seems to be some kind of (undocumented) size limit of taxonomy terms. If your taxonomy exceeds a few thousand nodes, most contributed modules can't handle it anymore (WSOD with all Site Map/Site Menu like modules). Also, editing of terms becomes increasingly slower, until editing *one* single term requires to load several megabytes of data (taking minutes, depending o your server configuration an the load it handles at the moment). So basically taxonomy seems not to scale beyond mid-sized website requirements; with nodes at least I haven't yet discoverd any limits yet.

Because of this (and other aspects like limited themability of taxonomy) I'd like to somehow replace at least parts of the taxonomy with nodes.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks & greetings, -asb

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thompson’s picture

thompson commented

i need this solution too.

greetings thompson

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asb’s picture

asb commented

Hi thompson,

so far, I couldn't find any working solution. However, there are two approaches:

* Category module - not recommendable for various reasons
* Taxonomy node module - Creates a node for every term in a vocabulary, but does nothing useful with those nodes (no two-way-relations between node and term, no synchronization of term descriptions and node's bodies etc.)

Please drop a note I you find anything else!

Greetings, -asb

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shunting’s picture

shunting commented

Here.

aren cambre’s picture

aren cambre commented

Subscribe. Would also like this feature. I am starting a new site but fear I may need to convert some taxonomies to nodes at some point. Right now I just don't know.

I wonder if #452962: CCK taxonomy fields too? is an answer?

shunting’s picture

shunting commented

Subscribing.

qriz’s picture

qriz commented

i have discribed it here http://drupal.org/node/558314