[Phpwebsite-developers] Detecting categories

[Verdon V. <ve...@ve...>]

hi all :)

Has anyone worked out a simple/reliable method to detect the 
category(s) of whatever content is currently being displayed in your 
phpws site?

I've come up with a few hacks that work in some mods and not in others, 
and I've spent hours looking at the $_SESSION and $GLOBALS arrays for 
something reliable, as well as the fatcat class files, but I haven't 
been able to work out a bullet-proof method yet. All I'm really trying 
to achieve is a way to capture the id of any fatcat categories the 
curent content may belong to, in my theme.php file, so I can use this 
variable.

So far, I've been poking at things like this, just to see what'll 
happen, but the results are pretty inconsistant...

$cur_mod = $GLOBALS["core"]->requestModule;
$my_cats = $_SESSION["OBJ_fatcat"]->listModuleElements($cur_mod);

foreach ($my_cats as $my_cat_title){
    $cat_title = $my_cat_title["title"];
    $cat_id = $_SESSION["OBJ_fatcat"]->getCatId($cat_title);
    echo $cat_id . '<br />';
    echo $cat_title . '<br />';
}

Does anyone have any better ideas?

Thanks,
verdon