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Blog_Category class

The Blog_Category class represents a blog category. It contains fields for accessing a blog title title, description and posts.

Class fields

• $name - category name
• $url_name - URL name of the category, for example "news"
• $description - a short description of the blog post in plain text format. Use the h() and nl2br() functions to output the description:

  <?= nl2br(h($category->description)) ?>

• $published_post_num - number of published category posts
• $posts - a list of published category posts. An instance of the Db_DataCollection class. Each element in the collection is an instance of the Blog_Post class.

Class methods

• create() - creates an instance of the Blog_Category class.
• find_all() - returns a collection of blog categories.
• find($id) - finds a category by its identifier
• find_by_code($api_code) - finds a category by its API code. Example:

  $category = Blog_Category::create()->find_by_code('news');

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