Drupal CCK and Taxonomy: Striking a Balance for Your Information Architecture

Drupal CCK and Taxon Striking a Balance for Your Information Archit Kenny Silanskas Bryan House Client Advisor Sr. Director, Marketing

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t is CCK and Taxonomy? Content Construction Kit munity Contributed Module (For Now) des API for custom field definitions. des a UI for custom field definitions. e are nearly 450 CCK related modules.

nomy f Drupal core des a method for users to classify content in a archical structure sts of one or more vocabularies with one or more te e used for “Free Tagging”

•  Flavors   Chocolate   Fudge   Vanilla   Cherry   Maraschino   Cream

isn't the ﬂavor a ﬁeld on our Ice Cream?”

Chocolate Vanilla bar Cream Cherry Many of these ﬂavors (terms) can apply to many diﬀerent types of treats (c eam

e you listing tributes? o you need to store ata other than plain CCK xt? o you need more ontrol over the

o you need a erarchy? hould users be able “free tag” content? Taxonomy o your objects exist the real world? (e.g. U.S State?)

Both! Let the features decide! (You wouldn't split up Peanut Butter and Jelly would you?)

There are over 430 modules in the community tagged with “Content Construction Kit (CCK)”

Deﬁne a “Node Reference” and create relationships between your content. ecide which content types an be referenced using mple controls or get as ranular as you need to be sing the Views module.

Let the users speak for themselves.

March (32) February (10) January (4) December (12)

Deﬁnes. Taxonomy Classiﬁes. (And Ice Cream is delicious, but we've cove

Growth is on the horizon!

lds can be attached to more than just nodes es, that means users and taxonomy terms. nsistent Way of Storing and Referencing Field onsistency == Eﬃciency == More Beer Time ld API Bundles to Group Related Fields No more awkward nodes!

xonomy Terms with Fields Now you get to see and hear the chocolate. d Vocabularies to Content Type Diﬀerent occasions. Diﬀerent widgets. th Aliases axonomy goes incognito.

K Deﬁnes. Taxonomy Classiﬁes. ow the Feature Set of Each. Never One or the Other. Always Both. ply Careful Thinking to Make Decisions. upal 7 is Going to Rock (Of Course)

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Drupal CCK and Taxonomy: Striking a Balance for Your Information Architecture

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