pipit_category_get_id()

pipit_category_get_id() takes the returned category source (typically when you use the skip-template option) and returns the category ID. The function is similar to pipit_category_get_path(), but returns the category ID.

Perch in some cases stores categories by their IDs and in other cases by their category paths. A common use-case for needing the category ID instead of the path is for rendering templates with perch_template().

pipit_category_get_id($source);
<perch:content id="name" type="text" label="Product Name">
<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="name">
<perch:categories id="categories" set="products" label="Categories" />
    $product = perch_collection('Products', [
        'template' => 'products/detail.html',
        'skip-template' => true,
        'return-html' => true,
        'filter' => 'slug',
        'value' => 'my-product',
    ]);

    if(isset($product[0])) {
        array_walk($product[0]['categories'], function(&$category) {
            $category = pipit_category_get_id($category);
        })

        // output rendered content/products/detail.html
        echo $product['html'];

        // render another template using the same product data without making another database query
        perch_template('content/products/another_template.html', $product[0]);
    }

The function only attempts to retrieve the category ID if $source is not numerical. If $source is numerical, the function will return the numerical value without checking whether it is in fact a category ID. This is because $source is expected to be either a category ID e.g. 34 or a category path products/shoes/.

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