Showing Taxonomy synonyms in a view

I was using Views to build some block based on taxonomy terms when I found that there was no field to allow synonyms to be output in the block. I need this - so presumably there must be others. Maybe it could be included in the module code in future?

I found it was easy to fix: edit the file "\sites\all\modules\views\modules\taxonomy.views.inc" - the bit dealing with the term_synonym table starts at line 272 in my copy:

  // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  // term_synonym table

  $data['term_synonym']['table']['group']  = t('Taxonomy');

  $data['term_synonym']['table']['join'] = array(
    'term_data' => array(
      // links directly to term_data via tid
      'left_field' => 'tid',
      'field' => 'tid',
    ),
    'node' => array(
      'left_table' => 'term_node',
      'left_field' => 'tid',
      'field' => 'tid',
    ),
    'node_revisions' => array(
      'left_table' => 'term_node',
      'left_field' => 'tid',
      'field' => 'tid',
    ),
  );

  $data['term_synonym']['name'] = array(
    'title' => t('Term synonym'),
    'help' => t('Term synonyms may be used to find terms by alternate names.'),
    'argument' => array(
      'handler' => 'views_handler_argument_string',
      'many to one' => TRUE,
      'empty field name' => t('Uncategorized'),
    ),
  );
  return $data;
}

Add an entry for "field" to the $data['term_synonym']['name'] array as follows:

  $data['term_synonym']['name'] = array(
    'title' => t('Term synonym'),
    'help' => t('Term synonyms may be used to find terms by alternate names.'),
    'argument' => array(
      'handler' => 'views_handler_argument_string',
      'many to one' => TRUE,
      'empty field name' => t('Uncategorized'),
    ),
    'field' => array(
      'field' => 'name', // the real field
      'group' => t('Taxonomy'), // The group it appears in on the UI,
      'handler' => 'views_handler_field_markup',
      'format' => FILTER_FORMAT_DEFAULT,
    ),
  );

A new entry called "Term synonym" will now appear in the list of fields under the "Taxonomy" heading. (NB. You need to empty your cache, after saving this change before it will take effect).

Stuart