From c3b26df0da254d301318d32e75011ad0c77eecd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Hensley <jhensley@washingtontimes.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:51:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] added views

---
 categories/views.py | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/categories/views.py b/categories/views.py
index e69de29..baec0f1 100644
--- a/categories/views.py
+++ b/categories/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render_to_response
+from django.template import RequestContext
+from categories.models import Category
+from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
+
+def category_detail(request, slug, with_stories=False, 
+    template_name='categories/category_detail.html'):
+    context = {}
+    category = get_object_or_404(Category,
+        slug__iexact=slug)
+        
+    context['category'] = category
+        
+    return render_to_response(template_name,
+        context,
+        context_instance=RequestContext(request)
+    )

From 16ad8057e3d7f414931acaca5abc9dde50a0d63a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Hensley <jhensley@washingtontimes.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:52:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] cats

---
 categories/urls.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/categories/urls.py b/categories/urls.py
index 84ff58b..8a6bb22 100644
--- a/categories/urls.py
+++ b/categories/urls.py
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.list_detail',
     url(
         r'^$', 'object_list', categorytree_dict, name='categories_tree_list'
     ),
-    #url(
-    #    r'^(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'object_detail', categorytree_dict, name='categories_tree'
-    #),
+./	
 )
 
 urlpatterns += patterns('categories.views',

From 176edd7736f84513d4cc201265c2425d10741c1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corey Oordt <coordt@washingtontimes.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:50:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Removed a strange typo

---
 categories/urls.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/categories/urls.py b/categories/urls.py
index 8a6bb22..194c715 100644
--- a/categories/urls.py
+++ b/categories/urls.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.list_detail',
     url(
         r'^$', 'object_list', categorytree_dict, name='categories_tree_list'
     ),
-./	
 )
 
 urlpatterns += patterns('categories.views',

From e69cfe96277a3d160679202d9e25a05fd815b34f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jose Soares <jsoares@int1665.local>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:07:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Added a new templatetag to retrieve the top level
 categories

---
 categories/templatetags/category_tags.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/categories/templatetags/category_tags.py b/categories/templatetags/category_tags.py
index f5ff719..07255e2 100644
--- a/categories/templatetags/category_tags.py
+++ b/categories/templatetags/category_tags.py
@@ -102,4 +102,33 @@ def display_path_as_ul(category):
     cat = get_category(category)
     
     return {}
-    
\ No newline at end of file
+    
+    
+class TopLevelCategoriesNode(template.Node):
+    def __init__(self, varname):
+        self.varname = varname
+        
+    def render(self, context):
+        context[self.varname] = Category.objects.filter(parent=None).order_by('name')
+        return ''
+        
+
+def get_top_level_categories(parser, token):
+    """
+    Retrives an alphabetical list of all the categories with with no parents.
+    
+    Syntax::
+    
+        {% get_top_level_categories as categories %}
+        
+    Returns an list of categories
+    
+    """
+    bits = token.contents.split()
+    if len(bits) != 3:
+        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "Tag %s must have 2 arguments." % bits[0]
+    if bits[1] != 'as':
+        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "First argyment must be 'as'."
+    return TopLevelCategoriesNode(bits[2])
+    
+register.tag(get_top_level_categories)
\ No newline at end of file