Tagging

[aphenine]

When I was looking around the database, I noticed that the tag database obeyed a tree form, which meant that tags could be stored with categories and subcategories and so on.

This is not a feature that's implemented, and it's high on my list of "features I'd love to have in DW" (possibly no 1 :-) ), and I have also written some tree algorithms using HTML/PHP before, so I thought I might try to give it a go and see if it went easily. However, when I went looking, there are no bugs in bugzilla about tree tagging, nor does there appear to be any information about this as a planned feature, despite the DB support.

So, I was wondering, can any of you please tell me more?

Comments

[mark]

Oh, don't be sorry! It's totally fine. If there were more than five lines of code and one database column, then you might be on to something. But really, there's not much support in the code for nested tags. Even if there was, we'd probably still at least go through everything from step #2. (We sometimes skip the suggestions process, but almost never skip the spec process.)

[cesy]

Can we get this put in Bugzilla, and then one of us will do a feature spec? Proper nested tags would be very useful.

[mark]

If you want to do so, go for it!