[development] Early Drupal 6 review from Chris Messina

Erik Stielstra info at erikstielstra.nl
Wed Nov 14 17:18:24 UTC 2007


On 14-nov-2007, at 17:25, Aymerick Jéhanne wrote:

>> Category is a problem because other systems (WordPress) use category
>> to mean "term", and in many cases don't have a concept of multiple
>> vocabularies or hierarchies.
>
> Totally agree, users except terms to be categories.
>
> The real "new concept" in drupal compared to others systems is the  
> Vocabulary. And after all, a vocabulary is a kind of  
> 'classification root', so why not:
>
> taxonomy.module -> classification.module
> vocabulary -> classification
> term -> category

taxonomy.module > classification.module
vocabulary > class
term > category

Class is abstract enough to be any collection of categories.
Catergory 1.150.000.000 google hits; Term 597.000.000 hits. I choose  
'category'


-- Erik Stielstra (Sutharsan)



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