Piotr Pilat

Hello, im doing integration for fetching zendesk articles within a given category. 
Problem is that i cannot see a effitient way to fetch Unique articles. 
Each article may be putted into multiple sections and category contains multiple section.

is there any efficent way to fetch unique articles in category without looping through each section in category and filtering by id?
such aproach uses multiple api calls and its not performance well.  below is my poor performance solution ;( i guess filtering such things like unique articles should be waay better done on your api side (or maybe is it but im doing wrong :P) 

"zendesk/zendesk_api_client_php": "^3.0"
 

    public function getArticlesByCategory(int $categoryId, int $page = 1, int $perPage = 25): array
    {
        try {
            $sectionsResponse = $this->client->helpCenter->sections()->findAll(['category_id' => $categoryId]);

            if (!isset($sectionsResponse->sections)) {
                $this->logger->error(self::API_RESPONSE_EMPTY);
                throw new InvalidDataException(
                    "No sections found for category ID: $categoryId",
                    Response::HTTP_BAD_REQUEST
                );
            }
            $sections = $sectionsResponse->sections;
            $allArticles = [];
            foreach ($sections as $section) {
                $articlesResponse = $this->client->helpCenter->articles()->findAll(['section_id' => $section->id]);

                if (isset($articlesResponse->articles)) {
                    foreach ($articlesResponse->articles as $article) {
                        $allArticles[$article->id] = $article;
                    }
                }
            }
            $uniqueArticles = array_values($allArticles);
            $offset = ($page - 1) * $perPage;
            $paginatedArticles = array_slice($uniqueArticles, $offset, $perPage);
        } catch (Throwable $e) {
            $this->logger->error($e->getMessage());
            throw new InvalidDataException($e->getMessage(), $e->getCode());
        }

        if (empty($paginatedArticles)) {
            $this->logger->error(self::API_RESPONSE_EMPTY);
            throw new InvalidDataException(
                "No articles found for category ID: $categoryId",
                Response::HTTP_BAD_REQUEST
            );
        }

        return $paginatedArticles;
    }