By masande on

there are a lot of useful functions included as part of the taxonomy module and the taxonomy_context module. these would allow me to gather and display some contextual information for any of my nodes. the problem is i haven't found a way to pass either the node's tid or vid as a parameter to these functions.

is there a way to get the current node's tid or vid? and once gathered, how would i pass that info to the function?

thanks a bunch for your help. this info will really help me jumpstart my first drupal site.

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frjo’s picture

frjo commented

Where is it you want to get the current node's tid or vid? A PHPTemplate theme, some module, a block?

Include som code examples and it will be easier to give advice.

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masande commented

Actually I am trying to get the TID and VID when I display a node. Definitely not from a module or a block, however. I've been using the following hacked code to get the current node's TID so I can pass it to various functions for output:

$terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms($node->nid);
$termlist = array();
foreach ($terms as $key => $tobj) { // $key is the TID for the displayed node.
  $termlist[] = $tobj->name;
}
$fancyterm = theme_item_list($termlist);

Since all of my nodes only belong to a single term I only get a single TID returned from the previous technique.

Is there a shorter ad more direct to get this info?

Thanks again for the help.

Mark Sanders
Q Collective

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frjo commented 
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
  switch($hook) {
    case 'node':
      if (module_exist('taxonomy')) {
        $termlist = array();
        foreach (taxonomy_node_get_terms($vars['node']->nid) as $term) {
          $termlist[] = $term->name;
        }
      }
      if (count($termlist)) {
        $vars['fancyterm'] = theme_item_list($termlist);
      }
      break;
  }

  return $vars;
}
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ryanrain commented

i pasted this function in my template.php but it completely broke my theme. i'm running a phptemplate theme in 5.3. has it worked for anyone else?

i'm also trying to get a node's term id, and have explained this in more detail in another post http://drupal.org/node/191111

guess i'll keep lookin.
peace.
-r

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giorgio79 commented

echo arg(2);

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