Day 14 - Drupal Gardens taxonomy

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According to wikipedia Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word finds its roots in the Greek τάξις, taxis (meaning 'order' or 'arrangement') and νόμος, nomos (meaning 'law' or 'science'). Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa (singular taxon). Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa (singular taxon).

In addition, the word is also used as a count noun: a taxonomy, or taxonomic scheme, is a particular classification ("the taxonomy of ..."), arranged in a hierarchical structure. Typically this is organized by supertype-subtype relationships, also called generalization-specialization relationships, or less formally, parent-child relationships. In such an inheritance relationship, the subtype by definition has the same properties, behaviors, and constraints as the supertype plus one or more additional properties, behaviors, or constraints. For example: car is a subtype of vehicle, so any car is also a vehicle, but not every vehicle is a car.

Drupal incorporates taxonomy into almost every core module available.

Another way to think about taxonomy is to think of it as a category. A good example of Drupal's Taxonomy is to think of a clothing store. The store will be organized into categories. Pants, shirts, and socks. Each of these are considered a term in taxonomy. To be more precise, taxonomy is the module. Vocabulary is your folder that stores your terms. So you might have a "Clothes" (vocabulary) with terms of Pants, Shirts and Socks organized under the "Clothes" vocabulary. Then a Vocabulary of "Shoes" with terms of Nike, Reebok, and Adidas.

Watch a tutorial on how to set up Drupal Taxonomy at homeschool-webmaster.com

Taxonomy is now part of core so it comes standard with every installation of drupal. .

If you are wondering about reasons to use Taxonomy, you can find 3 major advantages to using Taxonomy

1. Organize your articles and content in a very detailed manner.

2. Using this with views allows you to instantly create customized list on the fly.

3. Using multiple categories on one content can put that content in as many list as you have categories. If you had a shirt that was red, green, and blue. Just create a term for each and the content will show up in the red list, green list, and blue list.
Very Easy




Okay, we've looked over the positive side, what is there on the negative side for Taxonomy ? What are its drawbacks?
The most important downside is the naming scheme of the module Taxonomy, vocabulary and terms. I am constantly getting confuse on which is which. As with most Drupal modules, Taxonomy was created by a techie with little ui training..

All-in-all, Taxonomy is a wonderful module that will make your life easier once you get over the terminology.

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[jaysonball]

Very helpful, Thank you!