This models supports retrieving a category, the articles associated with the category, sibling, child and parent categories.

• since: 1.5

Located in /components/com_content/models/category.php (line 20)

JObject
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   --JModelLegacy
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      --JModelList
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         --ContentModelCategory

mixed $_articles = null (line 29)

• access: protected

array $_categories = null (line 58)

The list of other newfeed categories.

• access: protected

object $_category = null (line 50)

The category that applies.

• access: protected

mixed $_children = null (line 33)

• access: protected

string $_context = 'com_content.category' (line 42)

Model context string.

• access: protected

array $_item = null (line 27)

Category items data

• access: protected

mixed $_parent = null (line 35)

• access: protected

mixed $_siblings = null (line 31)

• access: protected

Inherited Variables

Inherited from JModelList

JModelList::$cache
JModelList::$context
JModelList::$filterFormName
JModelList::$filter_fields
JModelList::$htmlFormName
JModelList::$query

Inherited from JModelLegacy

JModelLegacy::$event_clean_cache
JModelLegacy::$name
JModelLegacy::$option
JModelLegacy::$state
JModelLegacy::$_db
JModelLegacy::$__state_set

Inherited from JObject

JObject::$_errors

Constructor __construct (line 67)

Constructor.

• see: JController
• since: 1.6
• access: public

ContentModelCategory __construct ([array $config = array()])

• array $config: An optional associative array of configuration settings.

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Redefinition of:

JModelList::__construct()

Constructor.

getCategory (line 311)

Method to get category data for the current category

• since: 1.5
• access: public

object getCategory (integer 0)

• integer 0: An optional ID

getChildren (line 419)

Get the child categories.

• return: An array of categories or false if an error occurs.
• since: 1.6

mixed &getChildren (integer 0)

• integer 0: An optional category id. If not supplied, the model state 'category.id' will be used.

getItems (line 210)

Get the articles in the category

• return: An array of articles or false if an error occurs.
• since: 1.5

mixed getItems ()

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Redefinition of:

JModelList::getItems()

Method to get an array of data items.

getLeftSibling (line 385)

Get the left sibling (adjacent) categories.

• return: An array of categories or false if an error occurs.
• since: 1.6

mixed &getLeftSibling ()

getPagination (line 294)

• access: public

void getPagination ()

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Redefinition of:

JModelList::getPagination()

Method to get a JPagination object for the data set.

getParent (line 369)

Get the parent category.

• return: An array of categories or false if an error occurs.
• since: 1.6
• access: public

mixed getParent (integer 0)

• integer 0: An optional category id. If not supplied, the model state 'category.id' will be used.

getRightSibling (line 401)

Get the right sibling (adjacent) categories.

• return: An array of categories or false if an error occurs.
• since: 1.6

mixed &getRightSibling ()

hit (line 447)

Increment the hit counter for the category.

• return: True if successful; false otherwise and internal error set.
• access: public

boolean hit ([int $pk = 0])

• int $pk: Optional primary key of the category to increment.

populateState (line 104)

Method to auto-populate the model state.

Note. Calling getState in this method will result in recursion.

return void

• since: 1.6
• access: protected

void populateState ([ $ordering = null], [ $direction = null])

• $ordering
• $direction

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Redefinition of:

JModelList::populateState()

Method to auto-populate the model state.

_buildContentOrderBy (line 258)

Build the orderby for the query

• return: portion of query
• since: 1.5
• access: protected

string _buildContentOrderBy ()

Inherited Methods

Inherited From JModelList

JModelList::__construct()
JModelList::getActiveFilters()
JModelList::getFilterForm()
JModelList::getItems()
JModelList::getListQuery()
JModelList::getPagination()
JModelList::getStart()
JModelList::getStoreId()
JModelList::getTotal()
JModelList::getUserStateFromRequest()
JModelList::loadForm()
JModelList::loadFormData()
JModelList::populateState()
JModelList::preprocessForm()
JModelList::_getListQuery()

Inherited From JModelLegacy

JModelLegacy::__construct()
JModelLegacy::addIncludePath()
JModelLegacy::addTablePath()
JModelLegacy::cleanCache()
JModelLegacy::getDbo()
JModelLegacy::getInstance()
JModelLegacy::getName()
JModelLegacy::getState()
JModelLegacy::getTable()
JModelLegacy::loadHistory()
JModelLegacy::populateState()
JModelLegacy::setDbo()
JModelLegacy::setState()
JModelLegacy::_createFileName()
JModelLegacy::_createTable()
JModelLegacy::_getList()
JModelLegacy::_getListCount()

Inherited From JObject

JObject::__construct()
JObject::def()
JObject::get()
JObject::getError()
JObject::getErrors()
JObject::getProperties()
JObject::set()
JObject::setError()
JObject::setProperties()
JObject::__toString()