By El Bandito on

Hi

I have no experience of Taxonomy other than a vague sense of it being used to categorise content. I have a custom content type for storing the details of recipies ( say ). The recipies need to be searched and listed ( using Views ) by whether they are one of 5 types ( say starter, main, pudding, snack, nibble ). I have created a CCK field to store this info, but wonder whether Taxonomy would bring any advantages.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Dave

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

You're better off using taxonomy for the purpose you describe for a variety of reasons, including performance, maintainability and the automatic provision of views.

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Sunshiney commented

Taxonomy would be good for this usage. Create a vocabulary called, for example, recipes. Then within that vocabulary, add the terms starter, pudding, etc. Associate your vocabulary with content-type. Using cck, you'll be able to add a drop-down menu selection that could require one of the taxonomy terms to be associated with each recipe. Views can then order the presentation.