I use Discourse API client for PHP (by @michaeld I guess) and I can’t find how to get a category name/slug with only with an ID. I need it to display (slug and id) of all our categories and their sub-categories. But when I get the categories list, the only information about sub-categories is their…

Thanks, is it implemented in your php client ?

No, we never implemented that. Should be fairly easy to do, I can take a look later today.

function getCategoryById($categoryId) { $datas = $this->_getRequest("/site.json"); $categories = $datas->apiresult->categories; foreach($categories as $categorie) { if(($categorie->id) == $categoryId) { return $categorie; } }

You should probably save the data in a global, so you can call the function multiple times in the same PHP script.

I’d rather use /site.json once (to limit the API’s calls). We’ve added the following function to DiscourseApi.php : function getSite() { return $this->_getRequest("/site.json"); } and then use it to get wanted informations : $categories = $discourseApi->getSite()->apiresult->cat…

site.json seems to be the way to get a list of all categories. Is it mentioned somewhere in docs.discourse.org ? I was scouring the docs looking for a way to get the names of subcategories and couldn’t find it. Or is there a better way?

Making an API request to site.json is the correct way to get a list of categories that includes subcategories. Also, if you want private categories to be returned by the request to site.json, you need to make an authenticated API request. [изображение] nedbat: I was scouring the docs looking fo…

How to get a category name with the ID via API

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michaeld (Michael - Communiteq) 10.Июль.2017 09:10:38 2

I asked the same question a long time ago,
https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-subcategory-names-using-api/29795

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