Hello Alex!
Now that I have seen Multiple Category mod, I have understood it from the Tables. I see that there can be two basic comcepts of inserting Multiple Categories :
1 - Having only one Table of Categories
and then having an association of links to two or more categories. That is one link is associated to two categories. This is the approach you have taken.
2 - having two tables with two different themes or set or Matrix of categories.
This means a link can be associated to two different categories from different tables. For e.g. Subject categories and Geographic categories. They are two set of tables and a link is asociated to one category in one of the table.
The disadvantage of the first system could be, I repeate could be, that the categories are then only in one table and could be a chaos.
If there is a seperate listing one wants to show i.e. Subject categories submit area and Geographic area then the first system would not be able to do so. However if from the begining the categories are defined and seperated then one can display it different and they are sorted.
Now, how can I modify myself. Or if this is something that is possible. To create a new table is no problem but to get it going in the submit area is or could be a problem.
If in there are two seperate tables of categories. Then in the add/modify it will pick the listings from both the tables and allow the surfer to submit in to two category. Then all one does is to have to extra columns in the Links table which will identify the ID of the categories. Thats all. I beleive it could work.
This way one can also have more then two tables for categories and also respectively more columns in the links table, which is directly proportional or related.
For large directories like that could be mine in future, I may easily have about ten thousand categories. More over it needs to be updated. Then from the begining if this is installed or configured in this way it would be better, dont you think so? (here there is no talk of a costoum job, as someone rightly suggested earlier.)
Thanks Alex.
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rajani
Now that I have seen Multiple Category mod, I have understood it from the Tables. I see that there can be two basic comcepts of inserting Multiple Categories :
1 - Having only one Table of Categories
and then having an association of links to two or more categories. That is one link is associated to two categories. This is the approach you have taken.
2 - having two tables with two different themes or set or Matrix of categories.
This means a link can be associated to two different categories from different tables. For e.g. Subject categories and Geographic categories. They are two set of tables and a link is asociated to one category in one of the table.
The disadvantage of the first system could be, I repeate could be, that the categories are then only in one table and could be a chaos.
If there is a seperate listing one wants to show i.e. Subject categories submit area and Geographic area then the first system would not be able to do so. However if from the begining the categories are defined and seperated then one can display it different and they are sorted.
Now, how can I modify myself. Or if this is something that is possible. To create a new table is no problem but to get it going in the submit area is or could be a problem.
If in there are two seperate tables of categories. Then in the add/modify it will pick the listings from both the tables and allow the surfer to submit in to two category. Then all one does is to have to extra columns in the Links table which will identify the ID of the categories. Thats all. I beleive it could work.
This way one can also have more then two tables for categories and also respectively more columns in the links table, which is directly proportional or related.
For large directories like that could be mine in future, I may easily have about ten thousand categories. More over it needs to be updated. Then from the begining if this is installed or configured in this way it would be better, dont you think so? (here there is no talk of a costoum job, as someone rightly suggested earlier.)
Thanks Alex.
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rajani
Multiple_Category mod ./. Category Alternates