[drupal-devel] A Folksonomy module

[Julian Bond]

Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net> Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:06:01
>At the usability sprint we talked about introducing a form_ function 
>which adds support for 'Google suggest'-style textfields.  We felt it 
>was useful for the various username textfields.  Folksonomy might be 
>another use case.

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>While I haven't given the implementation much thought, in my mind, 
>folksonomies are a natural extension of the taxonomy module.  It is a 
>special kind of vocabulary that shares the underlying data structures 
>(terms) with the conventional taxonomy system.

Maybe we should think about the absolute minimum change to Taxonomy to 
allow this and to allow an add on module to be written. It might even be 
as simple as one additional status value for vocabulary:hierarchy. And 
all the associated code changes to hide that value.

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