HasCategory trait

Phproberto\Joomla\Entity\Categories\Traits\HasCategory

Trait for entities that have an associated category.

Index

• Requirements
• Methods
  • category($reload = false)

Requirements

This link asumes that your class has a column containing the associated category identifier. The default column name is category_id but you can use a custom one overriding the protected method getColumnCategory() like:

	/**
	 * Get the name of the column that stores category identifier.
	 *
	 * @return  string
	 */
	protected function getColumnCategory()
	{
		return 'category_id';
	}

Methods

This trait provides the following methods:

category($reload = false)

Get the associated category.

Parameters:

• boolean $reload (optional): Force data reloading.

Returns:

\Phproberto\Joomla\Entity\Categories\Category

Examples:

// Article already uses HasCategory trait
use Phproberto\Joomla\Entity\Content\Article;

$category = Article::find(1)->category();