Recursive total of books in category view

[lsu]

Hello,

In category view we wanted to see the total of books in each category including its subcategories. Therefor I extended the default.php template files of the category and categories by removing this

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(<?php echo $row->numero; ?>)

and adding this

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(<?php 

$numero = $row->numero;
$depth = 0;
$parents[$depth] = $row->id;
/* Count the total number of books, including subcategories */
/* This method only works because the tree is sorted        */
foreach($rows as $rownum) {
$couldbeachild = true;
while ($couldbeachild) {
/* Is it a children? */
if ($rownum->parent_id == $parents[$depth]) {
/* Yes, its a child, add the number of books*/
$numero += $rownum->numero;

/* Assume there is are child item(s) inside, increase depth... */
$depth++;
$parents[$depth] = $rownum->id;
break;
}
elseif ($depth == 0)
$couldbeachild = false;
else
$depth--;
}
}
echo $numero;

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Would be cool if this code could be included into the upstream version. Also it may be necessary to add a option for this feature (should be easy, just put an if around the whole for loop)

Bye
Stefan

[federica]

Hi Stefan,
thanks for your contribution.
I will add your code in the next version of abook.