Controller that populates category pages?

kiran123

1) What's the controller that handles requests for category-specific discussions e.g. http://localhost//categories/?

2) I'm building a component that automatically creates a category (e.g. if doesn't exist) and filters content for and presents it. Is there a custom event/magic event/method in this controller to hook my plugin into, if i develop this logic as a plugin?

3) Finally, the function that adds a category (CategoryModel->Save) is tied to the HTML Form post returned from the dashboard .. So, i guess i'd need to write my own function that validates against duplicate category URL/Names and adds categories, correct (i.e. i can't leverage functions already written in the MVC framework)?

thanks
Kiran

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@kiran123 said:
1) What's the controller that handles requests for category-specific discussions e.g. http://localhost//categories/?

Categories controller.

2) I'm building a component that automatically creates a category (e.g. if doesn't exist) and filters content for and presents it. Is there a custom event/magic event/method in this controller to hook my plugin into, if i develop this logic as a plugin?

What are you actually trying to do?

3) Finally, the function that adds a category (CategoryModel->Save) is tied to the HTML Form post returned from the dashboard .. So, i guess i'd need to write my own function that validates against duplicate category URL/Names and adds categories, correct (i.e. i can't leverage functions already written in the MVC framework)?

You have BeforeSaveCategory event hook. e.g. $Sender->Validation->AddValidationResult('Name') etc. I already validates against the slug being unique.

From my understand you actually wan to hook the post controller. Because it is a post that determines the new category. You wan to hook earlier than the validation for categories.