This helper function returns other records of the same categories of a given Record Object. To be added on the frontend_helper of Bancha 1.2

related_records.php

<?php

/**
 * Bancha CMS
 * This helper function returns other records of the same categories of a given Record Object
 *
 * Usage: $records = related_things($my_record, 10);
 *
 * @param Record $record
 * @param int $limit
 * @return array
 */
function related_records($record, $limit = 5)
{
	if (! $record instanceof Record) return array();

	$record_categories = categories()->get_record_categories($record->id);

	$records_ids = categories()->get_records_for_categories($record_categories);

	$ids_to_extract = array();
	foreach ($records_ids as $record_id) {
		if ($record_id != $record->id && count($ids_to_extract) <= $limit) {
			$ids_to_extract[] = $record_id;
		}
	}
        if (!count($ids_to_extract)) return array();

	return find($record->_tipo)->id_in($ids_to_extract)->limit($limit)->get();
}