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Working with Categories

This tutorial is for how to add categories to a module.

Getting started

Register your module. Otherwise you cannot add it to navigation.
Create new category
- Go to Publisher -> Categories -> Add new Root Category
- Add your Category: Enter Category Name and Permissions (role based)
- notice the new created navigation id.
Create some sub categories
Create the navigation block.
- You can copy it from e.g. CategoryNav?.php
- rename the class properly
- add your id to $menu->setStartId(); in getBlockContent()
Add your module to navigation. Otherwise you cannot add the category block
Add the category block to your module (navigation point)
Add the category block (CategoryNav? or your new block) to your page:
- in your ModuleMgr class add to function validate():
```
  $input->javascriptSrc   = array('TreeMenu.js');
```

Now the Block with rendered category tree should be visible. The category block takes care of appending the rigth parameters the URL.

SQL

add a collumn 'category_id' to your modules table:

ALTER TABLE `event` ADD `category_id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AFTER `event_id` ;

That's all you have to change in your db schema, as Seagull cares about nested set structures.

Don't forget to rebuild the Data Objects!

Code inside your modules

To use categories inside your modules you have to include /navigation/classes/CategoryMgr.php:

require_once SGL_MOD_DIR.'/navigation/classes/CategoryMgr.php';

_validation()

Get the current category by the navigation block:

$input->currentCat  = (int)$req->get('frmCatID');

generate select box

I made a simple function that returns an array of the sub categories:

    function _generateCategoryArray($rootCatId)
    {
        $menu1 = & new MenuBuilder('SelectBox');
        $menu1->setStartId($rootCatId);
        $aHtmlOptions = $menu1->toHtml();
        return $aHtmlOptions;
    }

include this in the add method:

$output->aCategories = $this->_generateCategoryArray($rootCatId);

and in the edit method i included:

$output->aCategories = $this->_generateCategoryArray($rootCatId);
$output->currentCat = $event->category_id;

where $event is my module's data object.

In the template:

<select name="event[category_id]">{generateSelect(aCategories,currentCat):h}</select>

Breadcrumbs (you are here:)

$menu = & new MenuBuilder('SelectBox');
$output->breadCrumbs = $menu->getBreadCrumbs($input->currentCat);