/**
* Get a collection of catalog items from the database. May
* possibly return an empty array.
*
* @param array $categories The array of category slugs to filter with. Will be ignored if false.
* @param string $operator Operator used to test the categories filter. Possible values are 'IN', 'NOT IN' or 'AND'.
* @param string $sort The database field used to sort the collection. Possible values are 'title', 'order', 'date' or 'random'.
* @param string $order The order the collection should be returned in. Possible values are 'asc' or 'desc'.
* @param integer $offset The start ordinal of the collection, or number of catalog items to skip over.
* @param integer $limit The maximum amount of catalog items allowed in the collection.
* @param boolean $load_categories Wether to load the category ids for each item of the collection. Possible large database hit.
* @return array An array of CataBlogItem objects
*/
public static function getItems($categories = false, $operator = 'IN', $sort = 'menu_order', $order = 'asc', $offset = 0, $limit = -1, $load_categories = true)
{
$items = array();
$cata = new CataBlogItem();
$params = array('post_type' => $cata->getCustomPostName(), 'orderby' => $sort, 'order' => $order, 'offset' => $offset, 'numberposts' => $limit);
if (!empty($categories)) {
$tax_query_array = array(array('taxonomy' => $cata->getCustomTaxName(), 'field' => 'id', 'terms' => $categories, 'operator' => $operator));
$params['tax_query'] = $tax_query_array;
}
// $query = new WP_Query();
// $query->query($params);
// $posts = $query->posts;
// echo $query->post_count;
// echo $query->found_posts;
$posts = get_posts($params);
// return an array of CataBlogItems
foreach ($posts as $post) {
$item = new CataBlogItem();
$item->id = $post->ID;
$item->title = $post->post_title;
$item->description = $post->post_content;
$item->date = $post->post_date;
$item->categories = array();
$item->order = $post->menu_order;
$item->_post_name = $post->post_name;
$item_cats = array();
if ($load_categories) {
$category_ids = array();
$terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, $item->_custom_tax_name);
if (is_array($terms)) {
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$category_ids[$term->term_id] = $term->name;
}
}
$item->categories = $category_ids;
}
$meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, $item->_post_meta_name, true);
$item->processPostMeta($meta);
$items[] = $item;
}
return $items;
}
