Advantages/disadvantages of using "Content types" vs. using "Taxonomy"
Hey everyone!
Thanks again to Matt V., Jonathon, and Sam for their wonderful presentations last night and for the excellent hosting!
Also, I'm trying to recollect some of the comments made last night. If I heard correctly, Matt primarily used "Views" and "Taxonomy" for his presentation; specifically, he used "Taxonomy" (mysite.com/admin/content/taxonomy) to classify content into categories and subcategories. Jonathon, on the other hand, primarily used "Content types" (mysite.com/admin/content/types) in lieu of "Taxonomy" to classify content. Is that correct?
If correct, could someone please elaborate on what was mentioned at the meeting? Jonathon made a comment or two on using "Content types" over "Taxonomy" which I've since forgotten. I didn't take notes and I'm trying to understand the advantages/disadvantages of using Jonathon's method vs. using "Taxonomy". I think my brain was on dial-up speed last night! LOL.
Thanks!
Walt
That's right
I found a good comparison & contrast between CCK and Taxonomy here. That might help to clear things up a bit.
Thank you very much
I was unsure of how to post to the front page board so I am posting here.
Thank you for the wonderful meeting on the 16th. Having never used Drupal, I must say that I learned alot about "Views", "Taxonomy", and some CCK. Which is surprising to me cause the only word I understood out of the three before was the word view (which after the 16th I know have the actual understanding of a view in the Drupal World.)
I appreciate the welcome in to the meeting and wish to attend more soon.
As for Drupal:
I finally got the guts to load it directly on my server account with GoDaddy and have been experimenting around. Being the Drupal Idiot (No0ber) that I am, it might take me some time to show any thing off. I do have some questions but I won't as they say, "Bend your ears off" today.
Once again thanks to all that made the meeting possible, and I look forward to learning Drupal, and helping develop it more in the future.
I may not be a programmer, but as a business and marketing professional, I am sure I can bring something to the table.
Thanks,
Tone1
one other distinction
One additional distinction between taxonomy vs. CCK is that taxonomy pages automatically get generated for each term, using the term id (for example: "?q=taxonomy/term/5"). The taxonomy term id pages can also be overridden by the Views module, giving you a lot of flexibility in how you present your content with little work up front.
With CCK, if you need a list of the nodes based on the contents of a CCK field, you have to use the Views module and create a view from scratch or write a custom query from scratch.