From 665e72f75aa137a699a54494195a1180d890ebda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jengo <jengo@alumni.egroupware.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:12:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added name2id() and id2name() functions

---
 phpgwapi/inc/class.categories.inc.php | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.categories.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.categories.inc.php
index e35e113069..21a4cd906d 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.categories.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.categories.inc.php
@@ -303,13 +303,17 @@
                         . "$cat_data', cat_parent='$cat_parent', cat_access='$cat_access' where cat_appname='"
                         . $this->app_name . "' and cat_id='$cat_id'",__LINE__,__FILE__);
 		}
-		/*!
-		@function return_name
-		@abstract return category name given $cat_id
-		@param $cat_id
-		@result cat_name category name
-		*/
-		function return_name($cat_id)
+
+		function name2id($cat_name)
+		{
+			$this->db->query("select cat_id from phpgw_categories where cat_name='"
+                        . "$cat_name'",__LINE__,__FILE__);
+			$this->db->next_record();
+
+			return $this->db->f('cat_id');
+		}
+
+		function id2name($cat_id)
 		{
 			$this->db->query("select cat_name from phpgw_categories where cat_id='"
                         . "$cat_id'",__LINE__,__FILE__);
@@ -322,8 +326,21 @@
 			else
 			{
 				return '--';
-			}
+			}		
 		}
+
+		/*!
+		@function return_name
+		@abstract return category name given $cat_id
+		@param $cat_id
+		@result cat_name category name
+		*/
+		// NOTE: This is only a temp wrapper, use id2name() to keep things matching across the board. (jengo)
+		function return_name($cat_id)
+		{
+			return $this->id2name($cat_id);
+		}
+
 		/*!
 		@function exists
 		@abstract used for checking if a category name exists