How to use one content-type as options for another content type

Question

I'm trying to find a way to use one content-type's field as a list of options for another content-type.

For example, I'm trying to build an image slider for a specific product category. So on the one hand I would have a content-type "product category" which contains all categories, and on the other hand I would have my "product photo" content-type which would contain the image, title, alt text and a select dropdown with all product categories (directly loaded from the 'product category' content).

This way, it would also be possible for me to add a 'product category' to the main 'basic page' content pages and use that for the view which builds the photoslider, making it really easy to add a overview page to my website for a certain product category, while still keeping everything dynamics (so I don't have to fiddle with my views once the site is up and running).

Does anyone here know how to do that?

Answer 1

Using a Taxonomy is a common solution in Drupal to represent simple or nested categorizations.

Taxonomy vocabularies are very flexible and can also be combined with Taxonomy menu or similar modules to handle breadcrumbs, menu entries or permissions.

However you should be aware that by default each taxonomy term has its own additional menu entry.

Answer 2

Taxonomy is definitely the way to go. It's a Drupal 6 walkthrough but the example at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBdVW7fC2Tg should be helpful. Taxonomy + Views + Pathauto and you are good to go.