[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

[Greg Holsclaw]

Thankfully, if you are so inclined, and are wary of the performance
issue, you can always use the http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment
module. Then all comments will be nodes, and you can tags with taxonomy
any way you want to.

 

Again, it is not really architecture accident, but an intentional long
debated design choice.

 

-Greg

 

 

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From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org
[mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of William Smith
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:49 PM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: Re: [consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

 

The issue isn't so much that it can't be done, it is that it isn't
likely to happen in core anytime soon.  This is one of the great
never-ending debates in the Drupal community -- should comments be
nodes, or not?  It gets heated, and it has played out many times. 

If you want the ability to apply taxonomy terms to comments on your
particular site, it can certainly be done, and money can certainly buy
it.  If you need a developer, I may have some available time later this
week as I wrap a couple of projects up. 

All the best,
William

On 8/26/07, George Por <George at community-intelligence.com> wrote: 

This is message is to those brave souls who think that something can be
done to fix a major limitation of Drupal design.

I am talking about the fact that only nodes can have categories and tags
but not comments. That means that a forum topic opener and blog can have
them individual blog entries and topic replies not, makes those key
modules largely useless from the perspective of growing the a group's
capacity for collaborative meaning making. 

I talked with many programmers and they all said that adding rags to
comment cannot be done in Drupal because of its architecture. Is it
really so? No amount of money could buy developer time to fix that? If
any of you have a serious proposal, we would consider it. 

When we used Drupal 4.6. And 4.7, we got that problem partially resolved
by using flexinode to mimick a blog, and then we could add tags to the
entries. However, we moved to 5.1 and, to my knowledge, flexinode
doesn't work there. Can that be changed? 

Another workaround would be to use Moveable Type or another dedicated
blog software and link the MT blogs fom our Drupal-based home page.
However, in that case we would loose the handiness of one search command
working on all content types at once. Any work around that? 

Best regards,

george 


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