By jarea on

Is there any way to use Views to modify the presentation from taxonomy_menu? The taxonomy_menu works great for me, but I would like a table presentation as opposed to a teaser and I haven't been able to figure out how to do it (or how to configure a View).

Thanks in advance.

Jim

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alias420’s picture

alias420 commented

Are you asking about the Taxonomy Menu module or are you refereing to hook_menu (aka function taxonomy_menu($may_cache)) in the taxonomy module?

jarea’s picture

jarea commented

I am sorry for the confusion. I am referring to the Taxonomy Menu Module, though it shows up as taxonomy_menu in my administration settings.

Cerel’s picture

Cerel commented

Well, if i remember correctly, the taxonomy module implements a "_page hook", in that hook it recovers the vocabulary id and then the terms.

Once he gets that, he pulls all the nodes from that vocabulary that match those terms. After that, it passes the list of nodes to "taxonomy_render_nodes".

So basically, you have two choices :

  1. Override in your theme the render done by taxonomy_render_nodes.
    • The problem is that will affect not only the taxonomy_menu module (i'm not sure if you can know who called the function, if you can, then you can hack the theme function to override the rendering only when taxonomy_menu is the caller).
  2. Patch taxonomy_menu_page to add a theming function, then you can override that function in your theme

The second choice is basically better imho. The first one is more a "hack" than a real, and clean, solution.

Of course, all this only works if you can code some php. If not, maybe you should add an issue and wait for someone to pick that up.

On a last note, i want to say that i'm not familliar enough with the views module to know if what you ask is actually possible (and easy to do).

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jarea commented

Cerel,

Thanks for the guidance. Your memory appears to be correct. I can code php, but I haven't familiarized myself with any of the hooks or other conventions for Drupal so I would like to avoid coding if at all possible. I was hoping that something might be doable via Views, but so far none of my tests have worked. I did add an issue and maybe someone will take a look at it.

Regards - Jim

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chazoopa commented

Jim,

Did you ever find a solution for this?

Chazoopa