Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/19697 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: taxonomy.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Morbus Iff Reported by: Morbus Iff Updated by: syscrusher Status: patch Comment #3 was from me (syscrusher). Sorry I forgot to login first. syscrusher Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 30, 2005 - 10:16 : Morbus Iff Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/taxonomy_all.patch (19.53 KB) This patch adds folksonomy support to Drupal (named internally as "Free tagging"). In a nutshell, the core difference is the input method: unlike normal taxonomies which are administratively controlled, a "free tagging" vocabulary allows tag creation when the node is submitted. It does this through an text input box, as opposed to a dropdown or selectbox. This patch: Removes the useless "Preview form" of a vocabulary. Alters the vocabulary table to include a new "tags" column. Adds a new "Free tagging" preference on vocabulary creation/editing. Modifies the vocabulary overview to support pagers for free tagging vocabs. The new code integrates tightly with the existing taxonomy code. The only additional processing occurs on node save and edit, where we parse through the tags associated with a node. All other display (and thus, code) remains the same. The following screenshots illustrate the changes, integration, and workflow: Create/edit vocabulary screen. [1] Create/edit a node. [2] Result of previous screen. [3] The new admin/taxonomy. [4] Clicking on \"view terms\". [5] These patches were made during the exploration and customization of Drupal by http://www.NHPR.org. In loving support of open source software, http://www.NHPR.org will continue to contribute patches they feel the community will benefit from. Questions about this patch should be directed to morbus@disobey.com. [1] http://disobey.com/detergent/2005/drupal_folkdef.jpg [2] http://disobey.com/detergent/2005/drupal_folknodeedit.jpg [3] http://disobey.com/detergent/2005/drupal_folknodesubmit.jpg [4] http://disobey.com/detergent/2005/drupal_folkpager1.jpg [5] http://disobey.com/detergent/2005/drupal_folkpager2.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 30, 2005 - 10:38 : Morbus Iff Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/taxonomy_all_0.patch (19.52 KB) Updated patch to fix some errors in the update.inc change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 31, 2005 - 10:27 : Morbus Iff Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/taxonomy_all_1.patch (19.54 KB) New patch for check_plain and HEAD. Also removed the term indent under vocabularies - there was an extra-space issue in regards to _taxonomy_depth, and I felt it was better to just remove the (non-standard, non-semantic) indent I originally added during the move to tablular display. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 31, 2005 - 13:19 : Anonymous A big +1 from me! This patch is going to be *extremely* useful for modules like "image" that involve frequent creation of new taxonomy terms. I've been testing this patch extensively for a couple of days. I love the fact that it is totally non-intrusive onto existing sites if the admin doesn't want to use it when creating vocabularies, and that the free-tagged terms become "ordinary terms" in the database structure, with no special-case table. Morbus Iff has done a great job of adding a powerful feature without breaking anything, as far as I can tell. I can see lots of ways in which this can evolve in the future, such as more fine-grained security so that some users can add a given node type without being able to add new free-tagged terms (i.e., that class of users would have to pick from existing terms only, even if the vocabulary allows higher-privileged users to add free terms). I can also see a place for user-owned free-tag vocabularies that are dedicated to their personal image albums. But these features could be added in a future release and still be backward-compatible with what Morbus has done now. That being the case, I suggest that this patch be accepted into core.