By drupalfan on

I'd like to include a list of related posts with each news item. I try the "related" module, but it returns off-the-wall responses ("Wi-Fi" and "sitemap" for a Linksys article, rather than previous Linksys stories.) The option of including specific related URLs doesn't work, either. What's the best way for presenting related posts? Thanks.

Ed

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handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

1. Use 'folksonomy' tagging on your articles. Then anything you tag with 'linksys' would be connected through the tag you add to a new piece.

2. ...though in fact that's overkill. This is what Drupal's Taxonomy is for - it doesn't just put things in main categories, it enables you to create another whole vocabulary for this purpose. You could create a "topics" vocabulary, allow 'multiple select' when choosing terms, and add terms for as many different keywords as you can think of.

There's also a module called "Taxonomy On-the-fly" which will even let you add a new keyword while you're creating content, instead of sending you to the taxonomy admin pages.

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drupalfan commented

How would I implement this? I understand the concept somewhat -- that I can use the vocab/term to direct readers to a certain class of stories. Could I create a topic/linksys combination, tag my linksys stories and create a block that lists all stories tagged as "linksys"?

But then, how do I create such a block 'on the fly', that is have a reader click a story title and somehow interpret that choice so that it lists the related taxonomy?

Wi-Fi Living

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bonobo commented

Taxonomy_dhtml or Taxonomy browser

The Extended Tracker module also gives some added fuctionality to tracking posts within vocabularies.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

bonobo

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syscrusher commented

I'm working with Webchick on a new "links bundle", a collection of modules that implement a robust URL-management API and user interface. One of the key modules from this bundle is called links_related, and it will do precisely what you are describing, if I understand your inquiry correctly.

The links bundle is still experimental code ("alpha" test), but it's progressing rapidly, and I hope to have it into beta by next week. This code is built for Drupal 4.7, and the goal is to release it to production as a contributed module (bundle) concurrently with the release of Drupal 4.7 itself.

One word of caution: I was originally writing this for Drupal 4.6, but have converted it to the new 4.7 forms APIs. During that process, some things got broken, which is why it's gone from "beta" back to "alpha" briefly. The code is *not* functional at this moment because I've committed an "interim commit" into CVS, but that will change over the weekend, as I've allocated some time to work on this project in earnest. Work life has been really busy the past few weeks.

More info at http://drupal.org/node/24719

Scott

thinkinkless’s picture

thinkinkless commented

have you tried the similar module?
http://drupal.org/node/25974

drupalfan’s picture

drupalfan commented

The same odd non-matching results would appear. For instance, a Linksys story would cause a story about MIMO (with no Linksys mention) to be listed as similar. I'm currently working on the taxonomy/folksonomy route.

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agira commented

It's because it works not on taxonomy but searching for same words in database by active node content text.