[SOLVED] Get Category Parent

[prestatent]

Prestashop 1.5.4.1

 

Hi

 

How do I get the parent(s) of a category in blocklayered.php?

 

The reason I ask is that I no matter what sub-category a user chooses from a sub-menu, I always want to display from the parent category downwards. for example:

 

Parent-Category 1

- Sub-Category 1

- Sub-Sub-Category 1

- Sub-Sub-Category 2

- Sub-Sub-Category 3

- Sub-Category 2

- Sub-Sub-Category 2-1

- Sub-Sub-Category 2-2

- Sub-Sub-Category 2-3

- Sub-Category 3

 

By default, if I choose Sub-Category 1 the layered navigation block would only show the 3 sub-categories underneath, whereas I would like to show everything. In other words, no matter what sub-category I choose, every sub-category under the parent is shown.

 

My thinking is that if I can get the parent or grandparent of the sub-category, then I should be able to achieve this. Is this possible with this approach?

 

Thanks for reading.

Edited July 19, 2013 by prestatent (see edit history)

[NemoPS]

If you want to get the parent, given that you currently have the category object, you can use $category->id_parent

[prestatent]

Thank you Nemo1, I'll give this a try.

 

Cheers

[prestatent]

Hi

 

I tried this fix but did not work. The amendment had to be included in blocklayered.php. I created a function to get the parent of the category and return the parent/grandparent of the selected category. This does now seem to work.

 

Thanks.