/**
* Create a single category and return its ID. If the category alias already
* exists, return the ID of that specific category alias.
*
* @param type $level
* @param type $levelpath
* @param type $parent_id
* @return type
*/
private function createCategory($level = 1, $levelpath = '1', $parent_id = 1)
{
$logger = $this->getState('logger');
$title = 'Overload ';
$alias = 'overload-';
$title .= $levelpath;
$alias .= str_replace('.', '-', $levelpath);
$data = array(
'parent_id' => $parent_id,
'level' => $level,
'extension' => 'com_content',
'title' => $title,
'alias' => $alias,
'description' => '<p>Sample content generated by Overload</p>',
'access' => 1,
'params' => array('target' => '', 'image' => ''),
'metadata' => array('page_title' => '', 'author' => '', 'robots' => '', 'tags' => ''),
'hits' => 0,
'language' => '*',
'associations' => array(),
'published' => 1
);
$basePath = JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_categories';
require_once $basePath . '/models/category.php';
$config = array('table_path' => $basePath . '/tables');
$model = new CategoriesModelCategory($config);
$result = $model->save($data);
if($result === false) {
$db = $this->getDbo();
$query = $db->getQuery(true);
$query
->select('id')
->from( $db->qn('#__categories') )
->where($db->qn('alias').' = '.$db->q($alias));
$db->setQuery($query);
$id = $db->loadResult();
JLog::add("Existing category $levelpath, ID $id", JLog::DEBUG);
// Enable an existing category
$cat = $model->getItem($id);
if(!$cat->published) {
$cat->published = 1;
}
$cat = (array)$cat;
$model->save($cat);
return $id;
} else {
$id = $model->getState($model->getName().'.id');
JLog::add("New category $levelpath, ID $id", JLog::DEBUG);
return $id;
}
}