[dev] category help

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Ben Chavet <ben at chavet.net>:

> I've been studying the category system so I can start on the new ansel
> backend.  I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to specify either the
> parent category or the child category when creating the categoryobject
> instance.

You can't specify a child when creating a new category. You specify the parent
by adding the parent's category_name onto the beginning of the new name and
putting in a colon, like so: parent_name:child_name. (see line 80 of
admin/perms/addchild.php).

> Am I right to try to extend CategoryObject with the Ansel_Image
> class?

Yes, I think that's right.

-chuck

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