Building a dynamic menu based on taxonomy terms

Question

I'm new to Drupal and I am currently using Drupal 7. I need to know if what I am trying to do is even possible. If so I am going to need some pointers on how to implement it.

I have two vocabularies: Category and Brand. I have products that are tagged with a brand and one or more categories. I want a mega menu, dynamically built based on these terms. Basically, if there is a product tagged with category "A" and brand "X", a link should be created in the menu under products. So the menu would look like Products >> A >> X. Is there a way to accomplish this? I was thinking that I could create a custom module that would find all nodes of type product and create a category link for each new category it finds; then create a brand under the proper category.

Answer 1

You are looking for Taxonomy Menu module. Here is an excerpt from its project page:

Transforms your taxonomy vocabularies into menus with ease!

Features

• Custom Menu per vocabulary
• Uses the default taxonomy term path or custom paths
• Integrate with Views
• Integrate with Pathauto: use URL/path aliases
• Does not interfere with other menu modules

I found these tutorials helpful to get started.

First Tutorial (youtube video).

Second Tutorial (youtube video).

Answer 2

If you need a cross Vocabularies like Product >> Cat-A >> Brand-X then you can use Taxonomi Menu UI (https://www.drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu_ui).

Taxonomy Menu UI works like "Node-Menu Setting", mean you can:

• Choose any parents: Brand-X has parent of Cat-A as your example
• Only show/hide certain Term on menu