I started working with categories at the behest of a few people saying it is the 'right' solution for what I was trying to do, but, I have run into a few problems.
If categories are hierarchial, how does one find out what the parent to a particular category is? I can see it stored in the table, but there must be a method that I am missing.
When you get the map, it returns a 'level' -- however, with the three categories I've added, two with a parent of "", one with the parent of the 2nd, I get a level of 1, 2, and 3. I guess this doesn't signify how deep the category is.
How does one find the immediate children of the current category?
Is there any code that uses categories that I could use as an example?