Hi In Ubercart's uc_catalog module it has the functionality you need. Perhaps that could be adapted into a new feature/api function for the core taxonomy module?
Lee On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 14:37 -0400, Liam McDermott wrote: > Hello list, > > First: I know this list is rarely used for core development any more, so > if there's a better place for this, let me know! > > What I'm trying to do: patch core to make forum-list.tpl.php output an > unordered list. To be semantically correct, sub-forums need to be > nested instead of that ghastly <div class="indent"> we currently use on > the forum front page. > > The problem with doing this is taxonomy_get_tree() returns a flat array, > making it much harder to create a nested list than if it returned a > multi-dimensional array, where child terms are nested beneath their > parents. For example, instead of returning: > > array( > [0] => stdClass::__set_state(array( > 'name' => 'Child item', > // Class containing child tax. term's information. > parents => array( > 0 => '1', > ), > )), > [1] => stdClass::__set_state(array( > 'name' => 'Parent item', > // Class containing parent tax. term's information. > parents => array( > 0 => '0', > ), > )), > ); > > It would be ideal if taxonomy_get_tree() returned something like: > > array( > [0] => array( > 'name' => 'Parent item', > // Array containing parent tax. term's information. > [0] => array( > 'name' => 'Child item', > // Array containing child tax. term's information. > ), > ), > ); > > Alternatively the array of taxonomy terms could be changed, after the > fact, in template_preprocess_forum_list() but that seems like a kludge. > Surely taxonomy_get_tree() should just be outputting the correct thing > in the first place? > > Hope this makes sense and I'd love to get some idea of how to proceed! > > Kind Regards, > Liam McDermott.
