By illusionest on

Hi everyone,

i have a website thats running on Drupal V6, but im having some slight organizing troubles.
The website has 5 sections, each section has a link thats shown in the main menu.

Say, my site was about fruits. And my sections are apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, and kiwi's.
I want it so when my user clicks on apples, there will be a list of different kinds of apples... Gala, Macintosh, etc etc...
And when they click into each type of apple (Gala Apple) the content area will show a description page of that item.

its fairly straight-forward and simple, i've tried using menu's, until i found out that menu's can only hold up to 9 items.
I might have more than 9 in some sections.

Then i found out you can use Taxonomy, and the Taxonomy menu, but that's getting me no where either.

So what is the proper way of doing this? The most efficient way, i should say?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

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samwich’s picture

samwich commented

CCK and views

use CCK to define different content types for your 5 categories (apple content type, banana content type, etc) Use views to aggregate and filter out your different nodes, and you can also sort by content types.

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illusionest commented

Thanks Samwich for the quick reply! I appreciate it!

I will try that when i get to it later !

Thanks!

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I would use taxonomies to do this. From your example you only need one content type (fruit). While you could use one vocabulary (taxonomy), I would make one vocabulary per section with terms being the kinds. Taxonomy menu can also be useful. If you visit http://moneypit.com the sections Home Spaces, Repair and Improve and Ideas and Solutions each represent one vocabulary and if click on one, the menu to the left is generated with taxonomy menu.

Side note: menus can hold more than 9 items, why do you think they are limited to 9?

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illusionest commented

Thanks nevets for the comment. I will look into that too.

9 because it says (when i go edit a menu item):
The maximum depth for an item and all its children is fixed at 9. Some menu items may not be available as parents if selecting them would exceed this limit.

I'm going to try one of the methods posted here now. Thanks everyone!

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

A depth limit of nine is not the same as nine items. If you have a 9 level deep nested menu you have a usability problem you should address, lol.

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illusionest commented

Nevets, i tried that method, but it seems everytime i want to add content i have to go through all the taxonomy menus and add a new taxonomy term, set all the stuff again just for one page of content, correct? is there an easier way, e.g. to add all the stuff required on one page? Or is the taxonomy menu too complicated for what i want?

Thanks!