By spyke100 on

Is there any way to get a list of Nodes in a certain taxonomy?

I would like to do this with views, but the problem is I have to create a block for each Term in the vocabulary, and approximately 80 (and growing). Something similar to the "taxonomy_term" view, but as a block and dynamically.

So if anyone can gimme instructions/ recommendations on how to approach this please do. Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

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nevets commented

You can probably due want you want, the question is how would you want to determine which term id to show in the block?

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spyke100 commented

Pick the first Term in the Current node and show all other "nodes" in this term.

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nevets commented

Ok, make a new view and have it list content in the way you want, I used a view with a style of unformatted and row style of fields and pick 'Node: Title' as the only field (I also cleared the label for the field). I then added two arguments

Argument 1: Node: Nid

  • Title: empty
  • Action to take if argument is not present: Provide default argument
  • Default argument type: Node ID from URL
  • Validator: Node
  • Types: (pick the types you want the block to display for)
  • Check "Exclude the argument"

Argument 2: Taxonomy: Term

  • Title: "Other content tagged %2"
  • Action to take if argument is not present: Provide default argument
  • Default argument type: PHP code
  • PHP argument code:
    $node = node_load(arg(1));
if ( is_array($node->taxonomy) ) {
   // Get the first term
   $term =  array_shift($node->taxonomy);
   return $term->name;
}
return;

Add a block display. save the view and add the block to the region where you want it to display.

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spyke100 commented

Once again, thank you very much. It worked.

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stellarvisions commented

I've had a bit of a block using arguments in Views 2 and this post made much clear to me, and I am using the insights with great success!

thank you nevets, very very helpful

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stellarvisions commented

This works great for me but for my purposes I would like to show all nodes, including the current one, if that is possible.

I tried to see if I could figure out how to do this but it is beyond me I'm afraid. Any help greatly appreciated.

thanks!

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nevets commented

I think all you need to do is uncheck "Exclude the argument"

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stellarvisions commented

I thought that as well, but when I do it the rest of the list disappears and i only have the current node listed. hmmm.

any other info you need?

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nevets commented

Ok,remove argument 1 and change the PHP for argument 2 to

if ( arg(0) == 'node' &&  is_numeric(arg(1)) ) {
  $node = node_load(arg(1));
  if ( is_array($node->taxonomy) ) {
     // Get the first term
     $term =  array_shift($node->taxonomy);
     return $term->name;
  }
}
return;

If you want this for only one content type try

if ( arg(0) == 'node' &&  is_numeric(arg(1)) ) {
  $node = node_load(arg(1));
  // Change  YOUR_TYPE to the content type you want
  if ( $node->type == 'YOUR_TYPE' && is_array($node->taxonomy) ) {
     // Get the first term
     $term =  array_shift($node->taxonomy);
     return $term->name;
  }
}
return;
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stellarvisions commented

worked like a charm!

many thanks.

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stellarvisions : communication architects
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that shape how information is
organized, displayed, shared, and
experienced.