Subcategories with CMS Builder?

Hi Brian,

There's no automatic way to do it (we hope to make it simpler in future) but I have some options. Here's what I did.

I created a new section called "My Categories" with fields for: Category Name, Category Breadcrumb, and Category Depth. I set it to sort by breadcrumb. Then, I manually entered each category like this:

Name: Sleeping Bags
Breadcrumb: Shop Outdoor Gear > Camping > SleepingBags
Depth: 2

Then I created a view with these custom options so it would show all the categories:

$options['perPage'] = '9999';
$options['orderBy'] = 'breadcrumb, name';
$options['pageNum'] = '1';
$options['where'] = '1';

And use this code to show a breadcrumb list:

<h1>My Categories List Viewer</h1>
<?php foreach ($listRows as $record): ?>
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($record['breadcrumb']); ?><br/>
<?php endforeach ?>

Outputs:

Shop Outdoor Gear
Shop Outdoor Gear > Camping
Shop Outdoor Gear > Camping > Sleeping Bags

And this code to show a tree list:

<?php foreach ($listRows as $record): ?>
<?php
$padding = "&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ";
echo str_repeat($padding, $record['depth']-1); ?>
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($record['name']); ?><br/>
<?php endforeach ?>

Outputs:

Shop Outdoor Gear
Camping
Sleeping Bags
Hiking

Will that work for you? Want to give it a try? The only downfall is it's a bit more tedious entering the categories.

Hope that helps!