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1. apatheticresistance
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi everyone,

   I'm trying to do some custom formatting for WordPress' Links (aka bookmark links). Using get_bookmarks() I can do most of what I want, but I can't get it to give me the name of each Link Category.

   According to The Codex I thought I should be able to get the category title out of any bookmark link (see Return Values). But it's always blank. So I tried the following code:

   $bookmarks = get_bookmarks();
   	foreach($bookmarks as $bm) {
   		echo $bm->link_id . ' id';
   		echo $bm->link_url . ' url';
   		echo $bm->link_name . ' name';
   		echo $bm->link_image . ' image';
   		echo $bm->link_target . ' target';
   		echo $bm->link_category . ' category';
   		echo $bm->link_description . ' description';
   		echo $bm->link_visible . ' visible';
   		echo $bm->link_owner . ' owner';
   		echo $bm->link_rating . ' rating';
   		echo $bm->link_updated . ' updated';
   		echo $bm->link_rel . ' rel';
   		echo $bm->link_notes . ' notes';
   		echo $bm->link_rss . 'rss';
   	}

   And nothing shows up for link_category. Same if I run print_r on $bm, link_category doesn't appear in the array at all.

   Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? Am I misinterpreting how to use get_bookmarks()? I'm no expert when it comes to using arrays.

   Thanks!

2. brasofilo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   i think if print_r does not prints something it's because it isn't there...

   using this idea, i solved it this way:
   

   $ritorna = "";
   $taxonomy = 'link_category';
   $args ='';
   $terms = get_terms( $taxonomy, $args );
   if ($terms) {
   	foreach($terms as $term) {
   		if ($term->count > 0) {
   			$ritorna .= "<h3>Category - ".$term->name."</h3>";
   			$bookmarks = get_bookmarks( array(
   							'orderby'        => 'name',
   							'order'          => 'ASC',
   							'category_name' => $term->name
   			                          ));
   			foreach ( $bookmarks as $bm ) {
   			 		$ritorna .= sprintf( '<a class="relatedlink" href="%s">%s</a><br />', $bm->link_url, __($bm->link_name) );
   			}
   		}
    	}
   }
   echo $ritorna;

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