[wp-hackers] The term_group column

[Jacob]

I agree. Writing the documentation for the taxonomy relationship 
functions was difficult as I had no idea WTF the code was supposed to be 
doing? Going off the names didn't seem to make sense of the matter 
either. Without more context, I'm unsure how such relationships were to 
be used. I'm sure that at some point I'll have to check through and 
track through the code for some of them and see what the other taxonomy 
functions use the relationship functions.

It is perhaps in another section altogether. The dependencies in each 
function aren't so much that it back tracking manually would be 
difficult. It would give context, but that is a huge undertaking. 
Without looking at the admin functions, it would be worth the effort if 
someone else looked over the documentation to inform me if I'm wrong.

I'm about finished with the taxonomy.php documentation and I suppose 
I'll need to look more into this to make sure I get it correct now. Once 
I'm done with that file, I'm never going back to it. I'm not going to 
lie and say it is baby or something, I'm not mad as to torture myself 
more than I need to with writing documentation.

If anyone can explain the matter better, it would be extremely helpful.



Christine Davis wrote:
> Term groups kinda just float in space.  I find that column and its
> functionality to be perplexing.
>
> *cough*
>
> It sure would be nice if a core-dev or some such could shed some light on
> how it was intended to be used/what it was included to be used for;  because
> that sure would help my (our?) understanding.
>
> -Ch.
>
> On 10/27/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com>
> wrote:
>   
>> Would that not require another table, term_groups to link them together?
>> It seems a little weird to me. Maybe I need to look at the code again...
>> - C.
>>
>> Christine Davis wrote:
>>     
>>> Looking at the code,  if term 8 is an alias of term 6;  then the
>>>       
>> term_group
>>     
>>> for both term 6 and term 8 is the next term_group incrementally.
>>>
>>> (So if there were three term groups in use;  term 6 and term 8 would
>>>       
>> have a
>>     
>>> term group of 4.)
>>>
>>> Roughly speaking,  it's not so much an alias (In so far as there is no
>>> primary term) as it is setting terms to be in a group together.
>>>
>>> -Ch.
>>>
>>> On 10/27/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> So what value would be set in term_group? If term 8 is an alias of term
>>>> 6, does term 8's term_group = 6? What about term 6, does it's
>>>>         
>> term_group
>>     
>>>> show 0?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers - Callum.
>>>>
>>>> Christine Davis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> It's for marking a term as being an alias of another term;  in
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> theory;  but
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> last time I looked,  the implementation seemed kinda broken.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/25/07, Callum Macdonald <
>>>>>           
>> lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com
>>     
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> G'day,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the term_group column actually used? Or is it provided for plugin
>>>>>> use, future use, etc?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't figure out how it would be used from the interface, and it's
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> not
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> used in any of the blogs that I've checked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Callum.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS> This is curiosity more than anything!
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