Ushahidi Category Blocks

category_wildlife_block.php

<?php blocks::open("reports");?>
<?php blocks::title(Kohana::lang('ui_main.reports_listed'));?>
<table class="table-list">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th scope="col" class="title"><?php echo Kohana::lang('ui_main.title'); ?></th>
			<th scope="col" class="location"><?php echo Kohana::lang('ui_main.location'); ?></th>
			<th scope="col" class="date"><?php echo Kohana::lang('ui_main.date'); ?></th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<?php
		if ($incidents->count() == 0)
		{
			?>
			<tr><td colspan="3"><?php echo Kohana::lang('ui_main.no_reports'); ?></td></tr>
			<?php
		}
		foreach ($incidents as $incident)
		{
			$incident_id = $incident->id;
			$incident_title = text::limit_chars(strip_tags($incident->incident_title), 40, '...', True);
			$incident_date = $incident->incident_date;
			$incident_date = date('M j Y', strtotime($incident->incident_date));
			$incident_location = $incident->location->location_name;
		?>
		<tr>
			<td><a href="<?php echo url::site() . 'reports/view/' . $incident_id; ?>"> <?php echo html::specialchars($incident_title) ?></a></td>
			<td><?php echo html::specialchars($incident_location) ?></td>
			<td><?php echo $incident_date; ?></td>
		</tr>
		<?php
		}
		?>
	</tbody>
</table>
<a class="more" href="<?php echo url::site() . 'reports/' ?>"><?php echo Kohana::lang('ui_main.view_more'); ?></a>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<?php blocks::close();?>

register_category_blocks.php

<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.');

// Start wildlife category block
class category_wildlife_block { // CHANGE THIS FOR OTHER BLOCKS

	public function __construct()
	{
		// Array of block params
		$block = array(
			"classname" => "category_wildlife_block", // Must match class name aboce
			"name" => "Wildlife Reports",
			"description" => "List the 10 latest reports in the wildlife category"
		);
		// register block with core, this makes it available to users 
		blocks::register($block);
	}

	public function block()
	{
		// Load the reports block view
		$content = new View('blocks/category_wildlife_block'); // CHANGE THIS IF YOU WANT A DIFFERENT VIEW
		
		// ID of the category we're looking for
		$category_id = 7; // CHANGE THIS

		// Get Reports
		$content->incidents = ORM::factory('incident')
			->with('location')
			->join('incident_category', 'incident.id', 'incident_category.incident_id')
			->where('incident_active', '1')
			->where('category_id', $category_id)
			->limit('10')
			->orderby('incident_date', 'desc')
			->find_all();

		echo $content;
	}
}

new category_wildlife_block;

register_category_blocks.php goes in themes/MYTHEME/hooks/

category_wildlife_block.php goes in themes/MYTHEME/views/blocks/