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Listing Categories and Articles

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Listing Categories and Articles

Hi Stephen -

I realize this is a bit off topic for this forum, but I'm wondering if there is structure in jom_genius that can help or you have insights to appropriate J17 classes. 

On a page that is a category (any style) display can the top level of the current category be accessed by a MMP module's PHP to then loop recursively through sub-categories and articles to create a menu-like nested <ul> list of links to the sub-categories and articles in that category? 

Thoughts?  Direction to head for someone with only moderate PHP-foo?  All suggestions appreciated.
Duke

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Re: Listing Categories and Articles

Hi Duke,

Yes, it's a little off-topic. You might be better looking for other extensions which can do hierarchical lists of articles, and see how they do it.

I see that in J1.6/1.7 there's a new class called JCategories which may give a good head start rather than trying to load stuff from the database directly. It seems to give programmatic access to all the nodes in a category tree, also via a class JCategoryNode. That's the direction I would be looking in.

Cheers,
Stephen

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Re: Listing Categories and Articles

Closest existing module I found was ArtsCats which has not been updated for a year and is a bit complex (read as harder to update than to rebuild). 

Excellent suggestions, Thank you!

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