/** * Core class used to create an HTML dropdown list of Categories. * * @since 2.1.0 * * @see Walker */ class Walker_CategoryDropdown extends Walker {
/** * What the class handles. * * @since 2.1.0 * @var string * * @see Walker::$tree_type */ public $tree_type = 'category';
/** * Starts the element output. * * @since 2.1.0 * @since 5.9.0 Renamed `$category` to `$data_object` and `$id` to `$current_object_id` * to match parent class for PHP 8 named parameter support. * * @see Walker::start_el() * * @param string $output Used to append additional content (passed by reference). * @param WP_Term $data_object Category data object. * @param int $depth Depth of category. Used for padding. * @param array $args Uses 'selected', 'show_count', and 'value_field' keys, if they exist. * See wp_dropdown_categories(). * @param int $current_object_id Optional. ID of the current category. Default 0. */ public function start_el( &$output, $data_object, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $current_object_id = 0 ) { // Restores the more descriptive, specific name for use within this method. $category = $data_object;
$pad = str_repeat( ' ', $depth * 3 );
/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/category-template.php */ $cat_name = apply_filters( 'list_cats', $category->name, $category );