Pedro Posada | Create list of links to taxonomy terms

Create list of links to taxonomy terms

Posted on March 7, 2009 - 5:43pm
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This piece of code is to generate a menu or list of links to taxonomy pages. I used it inside a block. I created a view that shows all items under certain taxonomy term.

It is basically a taxonomy menu but you can customized an place it anywhere.

Good link to learn more about embedding your own views: http://groups.drupal.org/node/10129

<?php
$vid
= 6; // this is the vocabulary id
$parent = 1679; // this is the parent term
$taxo_tree = taxonomy_get_tree($vid, $parent, $depth = -1, $max_depth = 1);
$items = array();
foreach(
$taxo_tree as $term){
     
       
// This is a better way to get all the nodes under a term, including nodes tagged with child terms.
       
$count = taxonomy_term_count_nodes($term->tid, $type = 0);        

    if(
$count){
      
$items[] = array("data" => l($term->name, "taxonomy/term/".$term->tid)." [$count]");
    }
}
print
theme_item_list($items, $title = NULL, $type = 'ul', $attributes = NULL);
?>

 

Submitted by Julia (not verified) on March 8, 2009 - 2:18am.

Hi,

it's really useful for me as an example of working with views 2,

but I'm sorry I don't understand necessity of views here.
For counting nodes we can use function taxonomy_term_count_nodes.

Submitted by pedro on March 8, 2009 - 2:47am.

Thank you so much for your comment. I didn't know there was a 

taxonomy_term_count_nodes

function in the API. This makes a lot more sense. I was using the views because I thought it was a good way to get all the nodes including the child nodes, but with the function that you just suggested it is less code and I guess less php processing. 

Thanks again.

 

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