How to override taxonomy page with users view?

Question

When I enable provided views, it works all right. But for one taxonomy dictionary (let's name it dictionaryname), I want to display users in that taxonomy, not nodes. So I disabled default view again and then:

• I created "show users" view with path taxonomy/term/% and it fails to replace taxonomy page.
• Then I changed path to dictionaryname/% - as path alias is set. But it fails as well.
• I changed path to aaa/% and it works, so I know view on it's own works. It just fails to override default pages.

Any idea what am I doing wrong? And how can I get dictionaryname/% path to work? It looks like Drupal's router give original term pages precedence over my view.

Answer 1

As per reviewing taxonomy_menu function, you need to replace path taxonomy/term/% with taxonomy/term/%taxonomy_term in "show users" view.

If you want to use path alias, set view path like this: dictionaryname/%taxonomy_term

Also, check Taxonomy and Views modules weights, make sure Views module weight is higher than Taxonomy module.

Answer 2

With reference to your question, here is a scenario that should help :: (This implementation was done for D6. It will also work for D7 with some changes)

// Say, module name is 'common_operations'

1. Invoke hook_menu_alter

    //Overwriting term page display 
    if (isset($items['taxonomy/term/%'])) {
      $items['taxonomy/term/%']['title'] = '';// Give title you need
      $items['taxonomy/term/%']['page callback'] = 'common_operations_taxonomy_page_display_callback';
      $items['taxonomy/term/%']['page arguments'] = array(2);
      $items['taxonomy/term/%']['access arguments'] = array('access content');
    }  

1. Defines 'common_operations_taxonomy_page_display_callback'

   
   function common_operations_taxonomy_page_display_callback($tid){
     $term = taxonomy_get_term($tid);
     switch($term->vid) {
       case 1: //Blog Tags vocab.
         $blog_tags  = '';
         ............................
       return $blog_tags;
       case 2: //Issues vocab.
         $issues  = '';
         ............................
       return $issues;
       case 3: //Tags vocab.
         $tags  = '';
         ............................
       return $tags;
       default:
         // Returns the default term page provided by taxonomy module.
         module_load_include('inc', 'taxonomy', 'taxonomy.pages');
       return taxonomy_term_page($tid);
     }
   }
   

2. Here, Blog Tags, Issues, Tags are different vocabularies. So, whatever changes we need for different vocabulary term details pages, we can take care off independently.

Hope it helps.