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July 30, 2012 22:53
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Creating a category via component postflight
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// Get the database object | |
$db = JFactory::getDbo(); | |
// JTableCategory is autoloaded in J! 3.0, so... | |
if (version_compare(JVERSION, '3.0', 'lt')) | |
{ | |
JTable::addIncludePath(JPATH_PLATFORM . 'joomla/database/table'); | |
} | |
// Initialize a new category | |
$category = JTable::getInstance('Category'); | |
$category->extension = 'com_myextension'; | |
$category->title = 'My Category'; | |
$category->description = 'A category for my extension'; | |
$category->published = 1; | |
$category->access = 1; | |
$category->params = '{"target":"","image":""}'; | |
$category->metadata = '{"page_title":"","author":"","robots":""}'; | |
$category->language = '*'; | |
// Set the location in the tree | |
$category->setLocation(1, 'last-child'); | |
// Check to make sure our data is valid | |
if (!$category->check()) | |
{ | |
JError::raiseNotice(500, $category->getError()); | |
return false; | |
} | |
// Now store the category | |
if (!$category->store(true)) | |
{ | |
JError::raiseNotice(500, $category->getError()); | |
return false; | |
} | |
// Build the path for our category | |
$category->rebuildPath($category->id); |
1 should always be the ID of the root category, at least in the CMS. You have to know the ID of the parent item you want to be a child of, so I can hard code it to 1 for CMS instances and be OK. Using getRootId should work also if you need it to.
Is this ok for joomla2.5? Because i copy it and It din't create any new category
Just wondering why you have $db = JFactory::getDbo();
in this?
this solution works better for latest joomla
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I see. Is '1' always the root category? it occurs to me that JTableNested has a method called getRootId for a reason.