Add taxonomy_term_load_descendents()

Created on 26 April 2008, almost 17 years ago

Updated 9 April 2025, 13 days ago

taxonomy_get_tree() returns all the terms in an array, but you have no way to find the data for a given term inside that array without iterating through the whole thing. This is silly (I'm tempted to call this a bug). It's been bothering me for a while, and I've had to work-around it by wastefully iterating through the tree once to make a new array indexed by tid, which I can then actually use. We had a very similar problem with node_revision_list() over at #114703: minor node revisions fixes → .

Here's a patch for D7's taxonomy.module. I can't see how there'd be objections to this.

However, meanwhile, I'd like to see if there's any chance this will be committed to D6 and/or D5. This patch applies (with minor offsets) to D6, and would be trivial to backport to D5 if that'd fly. Given the outcome of #114703, I doubt this will go into D5, but maybe D6? ;)

✨ Feature request

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

taxonomy.module

Created by

🇺🇸United States dww

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🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for sharing your idea for improving Drupal.

We are working to decide if this proposal meets the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or there is no community support. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

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