G2 Glossary

Glossary2 (G2) is an alternative glossary module written for Drupal 4.7 to 11.0, designed for high-volume glossary / dictionary sites.

2024-04: if you are using the module, or even just considering its use, please reach out here or on the OSInet contact form so I can make sure it does what you need/expect it do do.

Showcase

The default site implementation of G2 is the french Riff Glossary of computing. If you implemented G2 on your own site, please open an issue to describe your use case so you can get listed here, where you will be more visible and others can get ideas from your implementation.

News

• 2024-04-12: beta3, with Views integration, D11 supported added, D9 support dropped
• 2023-08-01: beta2 with new "Footnotes" block.
• 2023-07-04: beta1 version for D10/D9, feature complete
• 2023-06-25: First alpha version for Drupal 10/9 in 8.x-1.x branch
• 2021-01-24: First -dev version for Drupal 9 in 8.x-1.x branch
• 2015-11-01 : 8.x-1.x branch actually started.
• 2011-08-29 : 5.x-1.2 final version for Drupal 5. 5.x branch now closed.
• 2011-07-24 : Drupal 6.1.1-alpha1 release
• 2011-01-22 : First usable -dev version for Drupal 7
• 2011-01-11 : End of life for the 4.7 branch and final 4.7-1.1 version
• 2010-12-31 : End of life for the 5.x branches.
• 2009-11-11 : Production release 6.1.0. 5.x-1.1 production release for Drupal 5.
• 2008-01-17 : Drupal-6.x dev version.
• 2008-01-06 : Drupal-5.x dev version.

Lifecycle and support

• Drupal 11,10: beta versions
• Drupal 10 < 10.3: 1.0-beta2
• Drupal 9: 1.0-beta1
• Drupal 8: not supported
• Drupal 7: dev version, similar to the last D6 version. EOL on 2025-01-05.
• Drupal 6 (EOL): 1.1 alpha and 1.0 stable
• Drupal 5 (EOL): 1.2 stable
• Drupal 4.7 (EOL): 1.1 stable

The Drupal 10 version received significant changes and is expecting more, among which:

• Done: expose G2 Referrers to Views for no-code reports
• Done: no longer uses fixed custom-handled fields, but core fields
• Done: theme functions replaced by templates (partly done on 7, complete on D11/D10)
• Done: different and simpler themeable elements on D7, most templating rolled back to View Display entities on D11/D10
• Done: optional alphabar generation
• Done: the WOTD RSS feed is now a view
• Done: the homonyms disambiguation page is now a view
• Done: optional auto-filter without a <dfn> element with a stop list
• extended filter syntax
• JSON API in addition or as a replacement to XML-RPC

See the full G2 Glossary lifecycle page off-site. In addition to community support here on drupal.org, Commercial support is available from OSInet for this module.

G2.module, glossify.module or glossary.module ?

There is an old comparison of glossary modules on the Audean wiki, and a very obsolete version on drupal.org.

To sum it up, G2 is for sites needing a glossary for a large number of entries (think several thousands of entries or even orders of magnitude more), and is node-based instead of term-based, while Glossify is of more limited scope, but supports both nodes and terms for entries. Other non-current alternatives include Lexicon and the original Glossary, which started it all.

• For D11, a complete working version has been available since April 2024
• For D10/D9, a complete working version has been available since june 2023
• For D7-D8, Glossify is likely to be and remain the best choice.

Contributing

Contributions welcome, especially for Drupal 11/10.

Licensing

The default licensing for this module from its publisher is the GPL-compatible CeCILL 2 license.

However, like all modules on drupal.org, the module is also licensed to drupal.org under the GPL 2 or later, which enables drupal.org to distribute it under the GPL 2 or later too.