List categories starts with A*

  • Hello,

    I have a lyrics site, so I have a lot of categories.
    I have pages A, B, C…
    Example: How to list categories that starts with A*

    Thank you.

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  • <?php
//list categories if begin with letter a/A
$categories=get_categories();
if ($categories) {
  foreach($categories as $category) {
    if ( strtoupper(substr($category->name,0,1)) =='A' ) {
      echo '<p><a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a></p> ';
    }
  }
}
?>

    Michael you’ll get faster results with get_terms (it’s thousandths of a second, but it’s 5-9 times faster)..

    $categories = get_terms('category', 'name__like=a%');
//$categories = get_terms('category', 'name__like=A%');
if ($categories) {
	foreach($categories as $category) {
		echo '<p><a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a></p> ';
	}
}

    Took your code and switched to get_terms…
    name__like paramter is perfect for this case to..

    Thanks Mark. I will try to remember that ??

    gcarson

    (@gcarson)

    What would be the code to see if it starts with a number? i tried name__like= ‘num’ or ‘number’ but it didn’t seem to work. Any thoughts?

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