List nodes by taxonomy term as menu
Please, for the love of god show me a way to list the taxonomy terms AND the nodes they contain in a MENU, not on a page like /taxonomy/term/#.
I have three 'terms' in a 'vocabulary', and they are school, work, and art. Say I have five nodes each filed under one of these. I want my left nav to look something like this:
Home
Contact
...etc
School
--Node
--Node
--Node
--Node
--Node
Work
--Node
--Node
--Node
--Node
--Node
Art
--Node
--Node
--Node
--Node
--Node
Ideally, I would like one block of code to be able to do all three, but it wouldn't be bad as long as I could get them working separately. Also, no links on the terms (Work, School, Art) just the individual nodes.
It's been a rather stressful day, so apologies for not being able to dig deep into the code and figure this one out for myself. I tried a bunch of modules, including Taxonomy Menu and Taxonomy List but couldn't get either of them to display the nodes underneath the terms no matter what I did. If there is a way to do it though, please tell me step by step because if I'm left to myself with this headache I'll just keep doing the same thing over and over.
Thanks
Taxonomy menu with nodes
Hi,
I'm looking for the same thing. I came across this module - http://drupal.org/project/tinytax - in my searches, which builds an Ajax-ified menu of terms and nodes per vocabulary, but I haven't tried it out yet.
[Edit] OK, I mis-read the project page - it only lists terms, not related nodes, so I'm still no nearer finding a solution!
Follow up
OK, so if anybody out there comes across this thread, I've found a couple more avenues to explore.
The first is the Taxonomy Tree Menu module - http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_treemenu - which generates nested menus from selected branches of a Taxonomy vocabulary and can optionally display the nodes for each term as well. The module is however in beta, and the menus seem, for me at least, to be a bit unstable - menus would be created, but not show up immediately, then suddenly appear when visiting another admin page, then finally disappear altogether after visiting another page (I didn't manage to pin this down to a reproducible pattern). Tests with a vocab of about 150 terms, a few hundred nodes and DHTML menu caused a WSOD after exhausting the memory for PHP. The module sounds promising, but doesn't seem to be ready for production sites yet - worth keeping an eye on though.
An alternative is the NAT module - http://drupal.org/project/nat - which automatically generates a Taxonomy term for nodes of a selected content-type. This blog article - http://blog.adyax.com/2009/03/english-drupal-tutorial-node-auto-term-tax... - explains how to use hook_term_path() in your theme to point the NAT links to the node page, while other terms continue to point to the Taxonomy listings pages. The main problem I can see with this is keeping things in sync between the node itself (which might later be assigned to a different term) and the NAT term.
Memory usage on DHTML Menu
Hi; did you find out whether the memory error occurred even with DHTML Menu disabled? I maintain this module and would very much like to know if the memory footprint scales badly. :)
Memory Usage
Hi,
When I tried without DHTML Menu, the menu didn't show up at all - and then I found your post about Views requiring 500M of memory assigned to PHP in your tests (http://drupal.org/node/428802) and got a bit disheartened - the site is otherwise working fine with Taxonomy menu, DHTML Menu and Views and 64M of memory assigned. I might have another go sometime though and, if I find anything reproducible, I'll post an issue over on the module project page.
I hope my comments didn't sound too negative - The approach you're taking with the module sounds interesting, but I need to find a solution for a site that the client wants finished yesterday!