Taxonomy Treemenu

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Makes custom menus from selected branches of a taxonomy.

People keep asking for this. They keep getting told that it's not possible, its not Drupal, and "who would want it anyway?" For all you impossible people out there, here is Taxonomy-treemenu.

But what does it do?
Designers have no problem understanding what this means. Classify content without ever seeing a database? Drupal's taxonomy is excellent, yes? But you can't see your structure. Wouldn't it be groovy if you could?

For everyone else besides designers, here's a list of some of Taxonomy Treemenu's current features,

• You can have as many menus as you like, not just a sitemap. Make them different styles.
• The menus display in pages or blocks, up to you.
• The menus are full 2D menus, not lists. Same as the 'navigation' menu, not a node list.
• They auto-update if you change the taxonomy (may require cache emptying).
• Can show node links, and can work with depth.
• If they're in a block, they work with DHTML-menu.
• Mostly uses the normal Drupal custom-menu admin pages, because they are normal Drupal custom-menus.
• Works with multiple hierarchies (so far as I've tested).
• Lots of templating and themes to work with. Start on your site straight away, not figuring out how it works.

There's more, plenty more. More possibilities than we can figure out yet.

Where would you use it?
You want to index relatively stable parts of your content, e.g 'forum topics', using a 2D menu, like the 'navigation' menu. And you want to give that to your users.

Or you built up your site on a taxonomy. This can knock out a sitemap in seconds. And it auto-updates.

Anywhere where you can spare the space for a 2D menu and you want to really work hard for your users.

Notes
You need Taxonomy-router installed, as a dependancy.

Want to see what it's all about in a couple of minuites? Install and follow the instructions in the new QUICKSTART file.

Taxonomy Treemenu goes about it's job by taking a user selected vocabulary or term from a taxonomy, automatically growing the tree underneath, and saving the lot as a proper Drupal custom menu.

WARNING: this is a largely untested module. However, the worst anticipated damage is that you scatter loose links through your menu links table. If you know SQL, you can tidy this up in a minute or so.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-2.0-beta1	2008-Nov-05	34.8 KB	Download · Release notes	Supported for 6.x
6.x-1.0-beta1	2008-Oct-27	28.83 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x