iTunes Podcast Categories can't be defined

[cukabeka]

Hi,

I could not find any way to create an output according to the iTunes spec from here:
https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itc9267a2f12
The correct format would be

Specify a category without a subcategory:
<itunes:category text="History" />

Specify a category with a subcategory:
<itunes:category text="Society & Culture">
<itunes:category text="Documentary" />
</itunes:category>

Specify multiple categories:
<itunes:category text="Society & Culture">
<itunes:category text="Documentary" />
</itunes:category>
<itunes:category text="Health & Fitness">
<itunes:category text="Mental Health" />
</itunes:category>

In my code I tried things like this, but don't get a proper output:

    $channel->addCategory( )
	->term( $feed_category )
	->domain( 'itunes:category' )
        ;
    $channel->addCategory( )
	->term( $feed_subcategory )
	->domain( 'itunes:category' )
        ;

But I could not create anything like the required format. Do I miss something? Could this be implemented?

Thanks!

[cukabeka]

Sorry to ping you on this, but any feedback on this would be really helpful. Any idea?

[thielpeter]

@cukabeka This has been fixed by https://github.com/thielpeter/php-feed-writer/tree/feature/itunesCategories

[cukabeka]

Hi @thielpeter - thanks for adding this! So much appreciated!

One more question on this: How do I use this when doing the call?

I tried

 $channel->addCategory(  )
->text( "Education" );

but the output was still only

<itunes:category/>

[thielpeter]

@cukabeka This should work fine:

$category = $channel->addCategory()->text( '1' );
$category->addCategory()->text( '1.1' );
$category->addCategory()->text( '1.2' );