Get category tree in TYPO3 context

[pla]

Hello there,

I try to get the AIMEOS category tree inside of TYPO3 but I become desperate because I don't find any post nor a helping documentation about this.

The only thing I've found was this documentation to get the AIMEOS context inside TYPO3:

https://aimeos.org/docs/latest/typo3/extend/

But then the interesting part is missing.

I try to get the category tree inside a custom MenuProcessor to add the categories to the main menu and I can't believe that I am the first person who tries to do this.

I already have this code snippet to get the base category (or any other category by code/id) but unfortunately I can't get the child categories from here.

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        $context = \Aimeos\Aimeos\Scheduler\Base::context();
        $locale = Base::locale($context);
        $context->setLocale($locale);

        $manager = \Aimeos\MShop::create($context, 'catalog');
        $filter = $manager->filter()->add('catalog.id', '==', '1');
        $category = $manager->search($filter);

Can anybody help me how to get the whole tree in a MenuProcessor?

I am using TYPO3 12.4.20 and aimeos/aimeos-typo3 2023.10.7 in a ddev environment with PHP 8.2

[abeli887]

You can try using the getTree() method after fetching the base category. Something like this should work:

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$context = \Aimeos\Aimeos\Scheduler\Base::context();
$locale = \Aimeos\Base::locale($context);
$context->setLocale($locale);

$manager = \Aimeos\MShop::create($context, 'catalog');
$filter = $manager->filter()->add('catalog.id', '==', '1');
$category = $manager->search($filter);

$tree = $manager->getTree($category->getId()); // Gets all child categories

// Loop through $tree to build your menu

It will give you the full tree of categories and let you loop through it to make the menu. Hope that helps!

[aimeos]

To get the category tree, you only need:

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$tree = \Aimeos\MShop::create($context, 'catalog')->getTree();

[pla]

Thank you so much. I've searched in the code and googled so much and then it's so easy. I have already tried something with a getTree() function but from the Frontend::create method:

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\Aimeos\Controller\Frontend::create($context, 'catalog')->getTree()

But that did not work. When using your code it works and it is that simple as well. Thanks

[technoxprt]

To get the full tree, you can try modifying the $filter part. Instead of filtering by a specific catalog.id, set the filter to grab all categories by removing or adjusting that line. Then use $manager->getTree() to pull the full category structure.