BxDolCategory Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for BxDolCategory:

Public Member Functions
	getObjectName ()
	getSearchObject ()
	setSearchCondition ($oSearchResult, $mixedCategory)
	getItemsNum ($sCategoryValue, $aParams=[])

Static Public Member Functions
static	getObjectInstance ($sObject=false)
static	getObjectInstanceByFormAndList ($sObjectForm, $sListName)

Protected Member Functions
	__construct ($aObject)

Protected Attributes
	$_sObject
	$_aObject

Detailed Description

Category object, it can make regular form lists to act as categories by making it clickable and display search results with all contents with the same category. Also it provides services to list all categories with number if items in each category.

Creating the Category object:

Add record to 'sys_objects_category' table:

• object: name of the category object, in the format: vendor prefix, underscore, module prefix, underscore, internal identifier or nothing;
• search_object: associated search object to display search results in
• form_object: form object which displays this category, so category will be transformed to the clickable url
• list_name: form list name which values are used to populate categories from
• table: table where category value is stores
• field: table field name where category value is stored
• join: custom SQL JOIN to use when getting number of items in the particular category (filter inactive items here)
• where: custom SQL WHERE to use when getting number of items in the particular category (filter inactive items here)
• override_class_name: user defined class name which is derived from 'Templ' class.
• override_class_file: the location of the user defined class, leave it empty if class is located in system folders.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

__construct()

BxDolCategory::__construct ( $aObject )

protected

Constructor

Parameters

$aObject

array of editor options

Member Function Documentation

getItemsNum()

BxDolCategory::getItemsNum	(		$sCategoryValue,
			$aParams = [] )

Get number of items in the specified category

Parameters

$sCategoryValue

category value

Returns

number

getObjectInstance()

static BxDolCategory::getObjectInstance ( $sObject = false )

static

Get category object instance by object name

Parameters

$sObject

object name

Returns

object instance or false on error

Implements iBxDolFactoryObject.

getObjectInstanceByFormAndList()

static BxDolCategory::getObjectInstanceByFormAndList ( $sObjectForm, $sListName )

static

Get category object instance by form object and list name

Parameters

$sObjectForm

form object name @patam $sListName list name

Returns

object instance or false on error

getObjectName()

BxDolCategory::getObjectName

(

)

Get object name

getSearchObject()

BxDolCategory::getSearchObject

(

)

Get search object associated with category object

setSearchCondition()

BxDolCategory::setSearchCondition	(		$oSearchResult,
			$mixedCategory )

Set condition for search results object for category object

Parameters

$oSearchResult	search results object
$mixedCategory	category

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• inc/classes/BxDolCategory.php