[TASK] Retrieving all page objects for the news

Classes/Controller/BackendController.php

@@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ class BackendController extends ActionController {
 		// retrieve next site root id
 		$siteRootId = Utility::getSiteRoot((int) GeneralUtility::_GP('id'));
 		$categories = Utility::getCategoriesForSiteRoot($siteRootId);
+		$news = Utility::getAllNewsByCategories($categories);
 
 		$this->view->assign('docHeader', $this->docHeaderComponent->docHeaderContent());
 		$this->view->assign('pageUid', $pageUid);
 		$this->view->assign('categories', $categories);
+		$this->view->assign('news', $news);
 	}
 }

Classes/Service/Backend/Utility.php

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ namespace SGalinski\SgNews\Service\Backend;
  *  This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the script!
  ***************************************************************/
 
+use SGalinski\SgNews\Domain\Repository\NewsRepository;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Template\Components\ButtonBar;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Template\Components\DocHeaderComponent;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Utility\BackendUtility;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Imaging\Icon;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Imaging\IconFactory;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Mvc\Request;
+use TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Object\ObjectManager;
 use TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Utility\LocalizationUtility;
 
 /**
@@ -118,13 +120,26 @@ class Utility {
 		$databaseConnection = $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB'];
 
 		$where = 'doktype = ' . self::CATEGORY_DOKTYPE . ' AND uid in (' . $childPids . ')';
-		$result = $databaseConnection->exec_SELECTquery('uid, title', 'pages', $where)->fetch_all();
+		$result = $databaseConnection->exec_SELECTquery('uid', 'pages', $where)->fetch_all();
 		$categories = [];
 		/** @var array $result */
 		foreach ($result as $item) {
-			$categories[$item[0]] = $item[1];
+			$categories[] = $item[0];
 		}
 
 		return $categories;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @param array $categories
+	 * @return array
+	 * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
+	 * @throws \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Persistence\Exception\InvalidQueryException
+	 */
+	public static function getAllNewsByCategories(array $categories = []) {
+		$objectManager = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(ObjectManager::class);
+		/** @var NewsRepository $newsRepository */
+		$newsRepository = $objectManager->get(NewsRepository::class);
+		return $newsRepository->findAllSortedNewsByCategories($categories)->toArray();
+	}
 }