Drupal and Taxonomy Weights

Submitted by ebeyrent on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 13:45

I recently worked on a project in Drupal that called for a large number of taxonomy terms. I needed to put the terms in a specific order, but unfortunately, I had more terms than Drupal's weight field supports, which is a range from -10 to +10.

I did a quick search on Drupal, and was horrified to see how many people are hacking core to add a greater range. This is pretty easy to do without hacking core. All you need to do is create your own module that implements hook_form_alter().

my_module.module

<?php

function my_module_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
  switch($form_id) {
    case 'taxonomy_form_term':
    $form['weight']['#delta'] = 100;
    break;
  }
}
?>

And that's it!

[tags]alter, drupal, form, hook, module, taxonomy, term, weight[/tags]

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