drupal, tree in search form

Question

I want to make a search result page based on eBay/allegro, by that i mean:

1. left box -> category (with hit count)
2. center -> table with hits.

it should looks like that: (left box is most important)

And now, my current modules/Content types looks like that:

Content Types:

Content Taxonomy Fields - taxonomy used with CCK. this is must have for me. My node types is based on that.

Modules (all for drupal 6.22):

• Content Construction Kit (CCK)
• Views
• fivestar + votingAPI
• Content Taxonomy
• Hierarchical Select
• Faceted Search
• CCK Facets
• Faceted Search Context

And i don't know what to do... I can't figure that out :| Any ideas, would be great !

Thx Lukasz

Answer 1

This is a tricky task. There are always many ways to accomplish it. If it was me, I would write my own module from scratch. Having it interface with views will be a little complicated. Just to give you some starting tips:

• In the main view, you need to either add an exposed form where you can select the category AND/OR an argument to filter the selected categories.
• Then create another view that lists taxonomy terms.
  • The easy task would be to link the category name to the main view passing the category tid just rewriting the output as a link.
  • Then place the view inside a block and have the block show next to the main view OR use panels to combine both views somehow.
  • It's gonna be tricky to add the counts, if you can't find a module to do so, you could either theme the field to add the count or use http://drupal.org/project/views_customfield
  • The real deal would be to group and indent the categories, I'm not sure you can group taxonomy temps.

If you are to write your module, maybe you can take a look at http://drupal.org/project/tagadelic