[Solved] Show parent category image for subcategory

[yay]

I'm using the basic code to display the category image as a div background in header.tpl:

{if $category->id_image}
<div style="background: url({$link->getCatImageLink($category->link_rewrite, $category->id_image, 'category_default')|escape:'html'}) top center no-repeat;">
{/if}

This works well with the top categories, but I would like the top category image to be displayed also when viewing subcategories, since they don't have any images of their own. Is there any way to do this? Preferably a solution that doesn't involve manually adding the top category image to all subcategories. 

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited October 2, 2013 by yay (see edit history)

[gonebdg - webindoshop.com]

1st, you should assign a smarty for parent category object

 

Override CategoryController.php (don't forget to delete /cache/class_index.php)

class CategoryController extends CategoryControllerCore
{
    public function initContent()
    {
        parent::initContent();
        
        // Load parent category object
        $parent_category = new Category((int)$this->category->id_parent);
        if(Validate::isLoadedObject($parent_category))
            $this->context->smarty->assign('parent_category' , $parent_category);
    }
}

And then you can use the necessary variable of parent category object to get the image Link

In your theme file (category.tpl)

<img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($parent_category->link_rewrite, $parent_category->id_image, 'category_default')|escape:'html'}" alt="{$parent_category->name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" title="{$parent_category->name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" id="categoryImage" width="{$categorySize.width}" height="{$categorySize.height}" />

[yay]

Thanks for the reply!
 

I got the parent category image to show in the subcategory, however the image disappeared in the parent category. Found a solution to that, but since I'm totally new to Prestashop it's probably anything but correct. 

		{if $category->level_depth == 2}
		<!-- Ordinary category image for parent categories -->
		<img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($category->link_rewrite, $category->id_image, 'category_default')|escape:'html'}" />
		{else}
		<!-- Use CategoryController to fetch parent category image for subcategory -->
		<img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($parent_category->link_rewrite, $parent_category->id_image, 'category_default')|escape:'html'}" />
		{/if}

Edited October 2, 2013 by yay (see edit history)

[gonebdg - webindoshop.com]

I'm not sure if i'm understand, you've said "...however the image disappeared in the parent category..." what is mean ?
But I'm glad you can solve the problem

 

You can use id_image variable to check the availability of catagory image, or better use php function file_exists(PATH_TO_FILE) to check the image file existence

[borkafight]

Hi chaps!

 

With the release of the new version PS 1.7 this question is actual again. Could you help me to cope with this issue?

I would like to display parent category image of a product page on a product page.

 

Thanks a lot!

[elenaso]

I try to do this in PS 1.7.7.4, but it does not work.

I found the solution in this post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15968362/prestashop-how-to-find-category-id-image

The problem was we need modify two functions in CategoryController.php: public function init() and public function initContent()