By felixsmile on

Hello everyone,

Looking at the Module User Plus, I was wondering if there is an equivalent for taxonomy terms. I could find none.

I tried the Module Taxonomy import/export via XML, editing the XML file and then trying to import it. I failed :)

Is there any other method of editing the taxonomy terms quickly (accessing the database directly, maybe)?

Any method would be warmly welcomed!

Thank you very much in advance,

Felix.

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felixsmile commented

If there is any way how I could also edit the users in a quicker way than using the users plus module, I would be very thankful. I thought about direct database access or something of the kind, I don't know.

Maybe also a solution like in many mailinglist systems, where there is a blank field, where you can copy paste a text: every line one user, with e-mail-address and user name.

I would be grateful for any suggestion, as this can be a very time-consuming matter otherwise.

Thanks in advance,

Felix.

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felixsmile commented

Excuse me if I'm asking this question again: is there no one who knows how to edit Taxonomy Terms in a quicker way than adding them one by one via the administrator interface? If anyone has a solution for the user editing, I would be glad, too.

Please help me, I don't even want to think about editing the Taxonomy Terms one by one...

Thank you very much in advance,

Felix.

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felixsmile commented

Excuse me if I'm talking to myself, I'm trying to find a solution which might help others, that's why I'm posting everything here. Please tell me if I am breaching one of the forum rules (written or unwritten).

Here are the other threads talking about this issue, I will tell you if one works, for the moment, I am still trying:

http://drupal.org/node/75413
http://drupal.org/node/85526

A module that might work:

http://drupal.org/node/59169

If anyone can share his experiences, I would be very thankful.

Have a nice day,

Felix.

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felixsmile commented

I think the first of the previously posted threads can be very helpful. This is the code snippet mikegull had posted:

<?php
$vid = 5;    //vocab we're adding to
$parent = 1;   //parent tid
$terms = array(    //array of terms
'Ireland',
'Scotland',
'Wales',
'England'
); 

foreach ($terms as $term) {
   $edit = array ("vid" => $vid, "name" => $term, "parent"=>$parent );
   $msg = taxonomy_save_term($edit);
   print $edit['name'] . ": $msg<BR />\n";
}
?>

Now, I have two questions concerning this:

1) Can I add a description (and maybe even synonyms?) using this method? If yes, how?

2) How can I put apostrophes like this one ' in my terms (this is a php issue), I tried putting a / in front of them which didn't work.

Thank you very much in advance,

Felix.

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felixsmile commented

Hello everyone,

Please let me know if I did not respect one of the points in the Netiquette.

Anyway, I've been looking more closely at the matter, and here is what I get:

I think these are the elements you need:
$edit["tid"] # leave blank to create a new term.
$edit["name"]
$edit["description"]
$edit["vid"] # id of vocab this term belongs to
$edit["weight"]
$edit["relations"] # array of tid's for related terms
$edit["parent"] # array of tid's that are parent terms
$edit["synonyms"] # array of strings that are the name of synonyms

Which i found here: http://drupal.org/node/8533.

Hope this helps, I can't think of anything better, please tell me if you know anything more effective.

Have a nice day,

Felix.

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felixsmile commented

For the user import:

http://drupal.org/node/31940

For the taxonomy terms, a little script (to handle with care, especially for the descriptions and the size of the array, I didn't bother to add some security to it):

<?php
$vid = 5;    //vocab we're adding to
$parent = 8;   //parent tid
$terms = array(    //array of terms
'Term 1',
'Term 2'
);

$descr = array(    //array of terms
'Description 1',
'Description 2'
);

$i = 0;
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$edit = array ("vid" => $vid, "name" => $term, "parent"=>$parent, "description"=>$descr[$i++] );
$msg = taxonomy_save_term($edit);
print $edit['name'] . ": $msg<BR />\n";
};
?>

Have a nice day,

Felix.