Category Level

Module: Mage_Catalog

The Mage_Catalog module allows you to manage categories and products.

Resource Name: catalog_category

Aliases:

category

Method:

catalog_category.level (SOAP V1)
catalogCategoryLevel (SOAP V2)

Allows you to retrieve one level of categories by a website, a store view, or a parent category.

Aliases:

category.level

Arguments:

Type	Name	Description
string	sessionId	Session ID
string	website	Website ID or code (optional)
string	storeView	Store view ID or code (optional)
string	parentCategory	Parent category ID (optional)

Returns:

Type	Name	Description
array	tree	Array of CatalogCategoryEntitiesNoChildren

The CatalogCategoryEntitityNoChildren content is as follows:

Type	Name	Description
int	category_id	Category ID
int	parent_id	Parent category ID
string	name	Category name
int	is_active	Defines whether the category is active
int	position	Category position
int	level	Category level

Examples

Request Example SOAP V1

$client = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/soap/?wsdl');

// If somestuff requires API authentication,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('apiUser', 'apiKey');

$result = $client->call($session, 'catalog_category.level');
var_dump($result);

// If you don't need the session anymore
//$client->endSession($session);

Request Example SOAP V2

$proxy = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/v2_soap/?wsdl'); // TODO : change url
$sessionId = $proxy->login('apiUser', 'apiKey'); // TODO : change login and pwd if necessary
 
$result = $proxy->catalogCategoryLevel($sessionId);
var_dump($result);

Response Example SOAP V1

array
  0 =>
    array
      'category_id' => string '2' (length=1)
      'parent_id' => int 1
      'name' => string 'Default Category' (length=16)
      'is_active' => string '1' (length=1)
      'position' => string '1' (length=1)
      'level' => string '1' (length=1)
  1 =>
    array
      'category_id' => string '3' (length=1)
      'parent_id' => int 1
      'name' => string 'root_category' (length=13)
      'is_active' => string '1' (length=1)
      'position' => string '2' (length=1)
      'level' => string '1' (length=1)