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silvercommerce/complex-category
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Categories that allow more complex frontent functionality (such as sorting and selection of page length)

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Complex Category
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[](#complex-category)

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Category that allows sorting of products and selecting pagination length

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install this module using composer

```
composer require silvercommerce/complex-category

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This module adds a new category type called "Complex Category" that you can add via the admin interface. These categories allow you to add a `SortLimitForm`that will add "sort" and "show" dropdowns and automatically update the product list.

Add Form to Template
--------------------

[](#add-form-to-template)

This module requires you to add a `$SortLimitForm` variable to your category templates.

You can add this to all category templates, or specify a specific template for your complex category.

Customising sort and page length options
----------------------------------------

[](#customising-sort-and-page-length-options)

You can add custom sort and page length options via SilverStripe config. The config options are as follows.

### ComplexCategoryController.sort\_options

[](#complexcategorycontrollersort_options)

An array of sort options, where the key is the sort (which is loaded into the `DataList::sort()`call) and the value is what is loaded in the dropdown.

If you wanted to add a "Date Added" field to the sort, you could add the following to your `config.yml`

```
ComplexCategoryController:
  sort_options:
    "Created ASC": "Added (most recent first)"
    "Created DESC": "Added (oldest first)"
```

### ComplexCategoryController.show\_options

[](#complexcategorycontrollershow_options)

An array of page length options, where the key is the length (used by `PaginatedList::setPageLength()`)and the value is what is loaded in the dropdown.

If you wanted to add 120 and 150 to the field, you could add the following to your `config.yml`

```
ComplexCategoryController:
  show_options:
    "120": "120"
    "150": "150"
```

**NOTE:** To attempt to help protect against attacks such as SQL injection, none of the above pass queries are passed via the URL, instead a index of the selected option is passed and then the controller selects the appropriate setting.

###  Health Score

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Popularity13

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Community11

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Established project with proven stability

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Total

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Last Release

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