From 55859cf02a283b8741ad16254ee61cf49856089b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: briannelson95 <71141646+briannelson95@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:05:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added categories to projects

---
 src/collections/Projects.ts |  7 ++++++-
 src/payload-types.ts        | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/payload.config.ts       |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/collections/Projects.ts b/src/collections/Projects.ts
index 2528a8a..81b2f96 100644
--- a/src/collections/Projects.ts
+++ b/src/collections/Projects.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ export const Projects: CollectionConfig = {
                 {
                     label: 'Settings',
                     fields: [
-                        
+                        {
+                            name: 'categories',
+                            type: 'relationship',
+                            hasMany: true,
+                            relationTo: 'categories'
+                        }
                     ]
                 }
             ]
diff --git a/src/payload-types.ts b/src/payload-types.ts
index d4e4472..7b1c3d5 100644
--- a/src/payload-types.ts
+++ b/src/payload-types.ts
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ export interface Config {
   collections: {
     pages: Page;
     projects: Project;
+    categories: Category;
     users: User;
     media: Media;
     'payload-locked-documents': PayloadLockedDocument;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ export interface Config {
   collectionsSelect: {
     pages: PagesSelect<false> | PagesSelect<true>;
     projects: ProjectsSelect<false> | ProjectsSelect<true>;
+    categories: CategoriesSelect<false> | CategoriesSelect<true>;
     users: UsersSelect<false> | UsersSelect<true>;
     media: MediaSelect<false> | MediaSelect<true>;
     'payload-locked-documents': PayloadLockedDocumentsSelect<false> | PayloadLockedDocumentsSelect<true>;
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ export interface Project {
   } | null;
   link?: string | null;
   github?: string | null;
+  categories?: (number | Category)[] | null;
   /**
    * When enabled, the slug will auto-generate from the title field on save and autosave.
    */
@@ -182,6 +185,21 @@ export interface Project {
   updatedAt: string;
   createdAt: string;
 }
+/**
+ * This interface was referenced by `Config`'s JSON-Schema
+ * via the `definition` "categories".
+ */
+export interface Category {
+  id: number;
+  title: string;
+  /**
+   * When enabled, the slug will auto-generate from the title field on save and autosave.
+   */
+  generateSlug?: boolean | null;
+  slug: string;
+  updatedAt: string;
+  createdAt: string;
+}
 /**
  * This interface was referenced by `Config`'s JSON-Schema
  * via the `definition` "users".
@@ -242,6 +260,10 @@ export interface PayloadLockedDocument {
         relationTo: 'projects';
         value: number | Project;
       } | null)
+    | ({
+        relationTo: 'categories';
+        value: number | Category;
+      } | null)
     | ({
         relationTo: 'users';
         value: number | User;
@@ -314,6 +336,7 @@ export interface ProjectsSelect<T extends boolean = true> {
   richText?: T;
   link?: T;
   github?: T;
+  categories?: T;
   generateSlug?: T;
   slug?: T;
   featuredProject?: T;
@@ -321,6 +344,17 @@ export interface ProjectsSelect<T extends boolean = true> {
   updatedAt?: T;
   createdAt?: T;
 }
+/**
+ * This interface was referenced by `Config`'s JSON-Schema
+ * via the `definition` "categories_select".
+ */
+export interface CategoriesSelect<T extends boolean = true> {
+  title?: T;
+  generateSlug?: T;
+  slug?: T;
+  updatedAt?: T;
+  createdAt?: T;
+}
 /**
  * This interface was referenced by `Config`'s JSON-Schema
  * via the `definition` "users_select".
diff --git a/src/payload.config.ts b/src/payload.config.ts
index 6fbb4c2..e483fb0 100644
--- a/src/payload.config.ts
+++ b/src/payload.config.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { Users } from './collections/Users'
 import { Media } from './collections/Media'
 import { Page } from './collections/Page'
 import { Projects } from './collections/Projects'
+import { Categories } from './collections/Categories'
 
 const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
 const dirname = path.dirname(filename)
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
       baseDir: path.resolve(dirname),
     },
   },
-  collections: [Page, Projects, Users, Media],
+  collections: [Page, Projects, Categories, Users, Media],
   editor: lexicalEditor({
     features: ({ defaultFeatures, rootFeatures }) => [
       ...defaultFeatures,