Join Andrew Riley, Mike Anello, Ryan Price, and special guest Ric Shreves (from Bali) for a "very special", time-zone-busting, theming-happy episode 61 of the DrupalEasy Podcast.
Five Stories
- Ric Shreves is a founding partner of water&stone in Bali, Indonesia. He is the author of various open source technology books on topics like Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Ubuntu - most recently “Drupal 7 Themes” (Packt). Ric goes by ricoflan on Drupal.org (yes, like the dessert).
- Document or Die is an admonition from Chris Cohen calling for better documentation above functions in contrib code.
- Drupal and HTML5 talking about some of the new semantic layout tags in HTML, and a Roadmap for the HTML5 Initiative in Drupal 8.
- Advice against using starter themes, or more specifically, use Tao.
- Firefox rapid-releases 4, 5, 6 and 7. Firefox 6 Beta is out this week, as well as Firefox for Mobile. They have some new cool stuff for Web Developers who use Firefox, like a built in log, and the new JavaScript Scratchpad feature.
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Taxonomy Block by Yuriy Babenkoo - provides a hierarchical display of taxonomy terms in a block.
- Ryan - MediaFront HTML5 Video Player by Travis Tidwell - as seen on FLOSS Weekly 172 hosted by Aaron Newcomb and Dan Lynch.
- Andrew - Achievements by Morbus Iff allows you to create Xbox-Live-style achievements to award to your users.
- Ric - @font-your-face by Scott Reynen allows you to preview web fonts from a number of providers and apply them to your site from the Drupal admin interface.
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In regard to using Views to
In regard to using Views to display a hierarchy of taxonomy terms, I was able to work around this using the Lineage module. You basically use, but hide, the lineage output in a Views field. Then rewrite the output of your term link in a lower field. When rewriting that field you can include a token from the lineage field, which will give you that term's position in the hierarchy with a "-0", "-1", or something to that effect. Include that token as a CSS class on the term's anchor element. You can then use those CSS classes to indent the term links in order to display a nice visual hierarchy structure.
I agree the issue of displaying a taxonomy hierarchy needs a proper module. I use my above method to display site categories on many of the sites I build.
Interesting
That's an interesting solution - is there a URL where I can check out the results?
Thanks,
-mike
Another Hierarchy Method
Mike,
I was thinking about the view terms hierarchy question.
I created a sandbox project, Terms Hierarchy View. It uses Views Field View module to create a recursive view, the view embeds itself. It show the complete hierarchy or you can pass a term id to show only terms under a certain parent.
Ted aka tedbow
Views hierarchy
Anyone tried this: http://drupal.org/project/views_tree?
Contains a views style plugin that allows you to display items hierarchichachilly. ;)
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Yes, I looked at that module, but it's only for Drupal 6.
Thanks,
-mike
Taxonomy Blocks Hirearchy - Advanced Taxonomy Block Module
Guys,
LOVE !!!!! Your podcast I listen every week and have learned the most from your site.
I accomplished different Taxonomy blocks by using the Advanced Taxonomy Blocks Module. http://drupal.org/project/taxonomyblocks
The only bad thing is that is only for D6 but if you promoted it a bit maybe someone would make the port move along faster: http://drupal.org/node/983292