I have a dropdown navigation on my website header that displays categories for a news section. Similar to this.
News
- Category One
- Category Two
- Category Three
I want it so that when a user clicks on any of the category links it displays a page with all the news articles for that specific category.
Below is the code for what I have now.
NewsHolder.php
<?php
class NewsHolder extends Page {
static $icon = 'themes/kc/images/treeicons/news';
static $default_child = 'NewsPage';
static $allowed_children = array('NewsPage');
}
class NewsHolder_Controller extends Page_Controller {
}
?>NewsPage.php
<?php
class NewsPage extends Page {
static $icon = 'themes/kc/images/treeicons/news';
static $db = array(
'Date' => 'Date',
'Author' => 'Text'
);
static $many_many = array(
'NewsCategories' => 'NewsCategory'
);
function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', $dateField = new DateField('Date', 'Article Date (for example: 20/12/2011)'), 'Content');
$dateField->setConfig('showcalendar', true);
$dateField->setConfig('dateformat','dd/MM/YYYY');
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TextField('Author','Author Name'), 'Content');
$categories = new ManyManyDataObjectManager(
$this,
'NewsCategories',
'NewsCategory',
array(
'Name' => 'Name'
),
'getCMSFields_forPopup'
);
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Categories', $categories);
return $fields;
}
}
class NewsPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {}
?>NewsCategory.php
<?php
class NewsCategory extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
'Name' => 'Text'
);
static $belongs_many = array(
'NewsPage' => 'NewsPage'
);
function getCMSFields_forPopup() {
$fields = new FieldSet();
$fields->push (new TextField('Name'));
return $fields;
}
}
?>Navigation.ss
...
<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<% control NewsCategories %>
<li>$Name</li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
...I've included this function in Page.php
function NewsCategories() {
return DataObject::get('NewsCategory');
}