When working with nested categories, it is often necessary or useful to see whether a category has child categories, or is a child itself.

We already have category_name, category_id and category_description, it would be great to add category_parent_name, category_parent_id and category_parent_description.

Also {is_child} or {has_children} might be useful. Currently it’s the query module or even PHP more often than not.

I’m all for that!
Needed for nested Navigation and for Breadcrumbs! Just ran into it and couldn’t fathom why it was not already there.

So you definitely have my vote on this one.

Vote #3

I vote in favor of that.

Yes Please.

Vote #5

Although I have yet to need this I have messed around in the past to get things the way I want but had to use horrible SQL queries to get at what I wanted so this would be very handy and would probably open up a lot more avenues for people.

Regards,

Mark

This would be very useful:)

Yes - I have a site in production that requires that entries are shared across different categories but I dread using the standard categories as they dont generate logical URLs (I have sub-categories with the same name in different parent categories - without the ability to know what the parent category is yoiu have no idea where you are)
Alternatively if you can create a way of sharing entries across weblogs instead then i would be deliriously happy

Need this to. I especially want to be able to seperate the children from the parents.

Vote #6

another vote here…

But i think the whole categories system is a bit lacking but it serves it purpose for now..

And another one…

I vote for this

We need this too. Another related request - it would be great to have a parent_id parameter for the tag so that only a particular category branch would be built. I’ve needed this for several projects and have used the exp:query tags instead.

Thanks!
Lydia

^^^ with all of the above.

I vote for this.
But also in the other direction - it would be very useful to have category children available.

I really like the fact that the URLs behind the categories do not nest the categories themselves, it makes it much easier to move the categories around when you need to, without changing the URLs—related to an issue that is listed here: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/69365/

But it would be nice if we could show breadcrumbs. I believe I have read this somewhere before and it is possible, so maybe someone can chime in with that old thread.

It would be handy also using in-built ExpressionEngine functionality to be able to get list of child categories after specifying certain parent category.

For example, in case there are a parent category named “CategoryParent” and child categories named “ChildCategory1”, “ChildCategory2” to get a list of those child categories after specifying their parent category.

Laisvunas -

You can try out the method that we’ve used on our sites.  I’ve posted the code to my personal blog:

ExpressionEngine Subcategories: Showing child categories on Gadgetell

Hope this helps!