Publisher review:Glossary helps newbies understand the jargon which always crops up when specialists talk about a topic. Glossary helps newbies understand the jargon which always crops up when specialists talk about a topic.
The glossary module scans posts for glossary terms (including synonyms). The glossary indicator is inserted after every found term, or the term itself is turned into an indicator depending on the site settings. By hovering over the indicator, users may learn the definition of that term. Clicking the indicator leads the user to that term presented within the whole glossary or directly to the detailed description of the term, if available.
The glossary uses Drupal's built in taxonomy feature, so you can organize your terms in a Drupal vocabulary. This allows you to create hierarchical structures, synonyms and relations. Glossary terms are represented with the taxonomy terms in the glossary vocabulary. Descriptions are used to provide a short explanation of the terms. You can attach nodes to the terms to provide detailed explanation on the keywords.
Installation
- Copy this whole folder to the appropriate modules/ directory, as usual. Drupal should automatically detect the module. Enable the module on the modules administration page.
- Glossary terms are managed as vocabularies within the taxonomy.module. To get started with glossary, create a new vocabulary on the taxonomy administration page. The vocabulary need not be associated with any content types, though you can attach detailed description to terms by adding nodes to the terms, so it might be a good idea to associate the vocabulary with the "story" type. Add a few terms to the vocabulary. The term title should be the glossary entry, the description should be the explanation of that term. You can make use of the hierarchy, synonym, and related terms features. These features impact the display of the glossary when viewed in an overview. Synonyms will be flaggged in the content the same way as the base term. Related terms will be linked to each other.
- Next, you have to set up the module and the input formats you want to use. This is done on the Glossary settings page at Administer >> Site configuration >> Glossary. First select the appropriate "General" settings and save them. Then select the tabs corresponding to any "input formats" you will allow to be used on your site (probably at least "Filtered HTML"). You may have different settings for each input format, but consider that carefully. You will be able to choose between superscript, icon, or acronym inclusion for each term.
- If your language's alphabet consists of something other than A-Z, you will need to enter the correct alphabet (in the correct order) on the "Alphabet" settings page. You may blank out the digits section if you don't use terms beginning with numbers.
- If you want a search box on your glossary page, enable the block on admin/block page.
Requirements: ยท Drupal 5.x/6.x
Glossary is a PHP script for Drupal Modules scripts design by Moshe Weitzman.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Glossary helps newbies understand the jargon which always crops up when specialists talk about a topic.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Glossary script details 
