taxonomy

There are several modules that provide taxonomy term widgets that are more efficient at drilling down into large and complex vocabularies of terms, but I've not yet found something that just limits terms in some way.

The use case is somewhat like this: I have products that are classified by sport and by team. And teams can be rugby teams or football teams, and so on. Having one vocabulary per type of team feels somewhat weak, but putting them all in one vocabulary means the user has to wade through a lot of irrelevant terms.

So I've been having lots of fun (read: horrible pain) this week thanks to some quirks of Drupal that only really present themselves when you are looping through, loading, saving and manipulating nodes quickly. The scenario for this sort of thing is normally (yup, you've probably guessed it) importing.

This is a quick Drupal 6.x, Views 2.x blog tutorial about creating the classic DMOZ-style sub-categories plus node listings above/below. Something Drupal does not do out of the box, but is fairly easily achieved.

(Thanks to longwave in #drupaluk on IRC for suggesting this approach.)