Taxonomy select as checkboxes

By hardieas on 13 Sep 2006 at 09:25 UTC

I'm setting up an online database of suppliers and their products and services.

I want to be able to classify both the suppliers (some of which will be 'users' with their own login and some of which will be just entries in a new CCK content type) and the products (which will be described in another new CCK content type) using a one-level heirarchy taxonomy of product and service terms. Customer insists these must be check-boxes not a multiple select list. Best plan I have come up with is custom profile field with checkboxes and a CCK content for the pages with a text checkbox field instead of using the taxonomy dropdown.

But, don't see how to generate these from the taxonomy or how one would search afterwards to firn both suppliers and products who specialise in this or that product or service.

Suggestions?

Comments

checkboxes in taxonomy

sin commented 13 September 2006 at 12:26

There was a year old taxonomy.module issue with examples of taxonomy patching and theming for checkboxes. I will try to use taxonomy with checkboxes and radios soon too, so please post back your results.

too old?

hardieas commented 13 September 2006 at 13:34

Given that thread was a year old and that the suggested patches don't seem to have been committed, perhaps it's not a sensible approach.
Not sure I am going to have the time to develop anything myself (even if I could) but, if I do, I will post results.
Haven't even given thought to how I would search all this ...