#summary Demonstration of AplCategoryCombo,AplConnection, AplHtmlSelection

{{{

<?php
  /*
    This component will display a category hierarchy via apl_html_selection object.
    Category table must have at least these 3 fields [ Category_Id,Category_Name,Parent_Category ]
  */
  require_once("config.php");
  require_once("apl.php");
  require_once("apl_constants.php");
  require_once("components/apl_category_combo.php");
  /*
    First of all create variables
  */
  $connObj = new AplConnection("localhost","mysql_user","mysql_pass","test_database");
  $parentCombo = new AplCategoryCombo();
  $parentSelection = new AplHtmlSelection();
  /*
    Set some html attributes of our HtmlSelection Object
  */
  $parentSelection->Id = "idAttribute";
  $parentSelection->Name = "nameAttributeToBeUsedInAForm";
  $parentSelection->MultipleChoice = true;
  
  /*
    Assign objects and set field names to AplCategoryObject
  */  
  $parentCombo->setConnectionObject( $connObj );
  $parentCombo->setFieldNames("Cat_Id","Cat_Name","Cat_Parent","my_category_table");
  $parentCombo->setSelectionObject( $parentSelection );  

  $myRootCategory = 1;
  /*
    Fill the combo with the rows from our category table
  */
  $parentCombo->fill($myCategoryCombo);
  /*
    Display it :)
  */
  echo $parentCombo->buildTag();

?>
}}}

When we run this script we got something like this

http://www.0x35.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/apl_combo.jpg