Taxonomy Filter

The Taxonomy Filter module is designed to present an easy-to-use interface for narrowing down taxonomy listings to find topics that are tagged by multiple terms. This is helpful for sites that use multiple vocabularies to create a multi-faceted information architecture.

Prior to Drupal 7 (see note in the "Drupal 7.x version" section), the core Drupal taxonomy module has the ability to do this with the following URL format:

/taxonomy/term/x,y,z

which will display a listing of all nodes tagged with terms x, y and z. However, not many visitors to your site will be aware of this functionality.

The Taxonomy Filter module allows your users to enjoy this functionality without needing to know the URL syntax described above. It does this by displaying a block of links that reference multiple terms from one or more vocabularies. The vocabulary filters are defined in the module's configuration settings. There the site administrator can specify that a vocabulary be 'filtered' by one or more vocabularies. The arrangement of the links in the block can also be specified by selecting one of the four menu templates -- default, cloud, context and dynamic.

For example, if vocabulary A is set to be 'filtered' by vocabulary B (which may be vocabulary A), then whenever someone views the taxonomy listing of a term in vocabulary A they will see a 'filter' menu of terms from vocabularies A and B. This allows the visitor to narrow down the listing by choosing another term - effectively showing them the intersection set of nodes from the two terms.

Using Views to display multi-term content

To take advantage of the multi-term filter menus provided by this module with Views, you will need to modify the default "taxonomy_term" view which returns all nodes tagged with ANY of the term ids in the URL. One option is the Multi-Term Views module which modifies the default "taxonomy_term" view to provide this functionality.

Filter menu templates

Filter links can be displayed in four different formats:

• Base (a simple list)
• Cloud (a tag cloud format)
• Context (showing parent, child and related terms)
• Dynamic (a nested list corresponding to term depth)

Drupal 7.x version

To take advantage of the multi-term filter menus provided by this module, you will need to replace the multi-term node display functionality removed in Drupal 7. One option is the Multi-Term Views module which modifies the default "taxonomy_term" view provided by the Views module to restore this functionality.

Drupal 6.x version

Beginning with the 6.x-1.4 version, the module includes internationalization support as well as URL generation settings for search engine optimization.

The Drupal 6.x version of the module is a complete rewrite. The new version is much more modular and extensible - all of the functionality of the Drupal 5.x version is provided by the core and add-on modules. In addition, the 6.x module can filter on more than two terms (as many as your vocabulary and content will support) when using the base and cloud menu templates.

This version also includes comprehensive test coverage using the Drupal implementation of SimpleTest.

Configuration

Pending a formal handbook page, see this comment. This is written in terms of the menu paths of Drupal 6.x. For Drupal 7.x, adapt the admin/xxx paths to their 7.x equivalents.

NOTE: The development snapshots are stable and include the latest code changes and fixes related to issue posts.

This module is sponsored by Boombatower Development.