[SOLVED] Getting parent category id

[thisishellow]

Hi everybody,

I had no problems to get the id of the current category, in order to show a specific background on each category. But i would like to show the same background on each sub-product of these categories.

That's why i need to get the id of the parent category on my products template.

Hope this is clear enough..
Thanks in advance for your help !

[rocky]

You can use {$product->id_category_default} to get the default category of the product or {$cookie->last_visited_category} to get the last category page that was visited.

[thisishellow]

Thanks rocky for your quick reply ! I definitely need {$product->id_category_default} because people might come to products from other pages than categories so {$cookie->last_visited_category} will no function very well.

{$product->id_category_default} Works well in the product.tpl template but not in the header.tpl (I would like to add the id as a CSS class in the body). Is there any way to get the properties in the header ?

Thanks a lot,

[rocky]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is any clean way to get it. The only way I can think of is to edit header.php and add the following code before the $smarty->display:

if (isset($_GET['id_product']))
{
  $product = new Product($_GET['id_product']);
  $smarty->assign('id_category_default', $product->id_category_default);
}

[thisishellow]

That's perfect rocky ! Thanks for your help

[rocky]

Glad it helped. Please edit your first post and add [sOLVED] to the front of the title.

[thisishellow]

Done !

[Presta-TR]

hi i'm work of the categories block but i want to

1- if in a main category and sub category see -> main category links in the block. no see another categories. or sub categories.

simple

in the index.html(over made) have links at the main categories. and click another and in the category. block is displaying this categories->subcategories and clicks the subcategories displaying in the block again main categories -> subcategories.

Sorry some english
thx

[rocky]

So you want to display only the subcategories of the current category in the category block? It's possible to do that with my AJAX Sliding Categories module.

[Presta-TR]

no resolves. please help me? what is category.php?id_category=5 in this 5 ids categories id_paretnt variable ? i'm try to $id_parent no comes this 5's paretn id? please help

[rocky]

My post here might help.

[Presta-TR]

ok but i'm in blockcategories.php and ı'm tried this codes $id_parent, $id_category_parent, $category->parent, no setted up the parent id .. this variable.. please help

[rocky]

It should be $category->id_parent

[Presta-TR]

i'm tried.. i'm writtten it. no doing anything. this variable no settted up in blockcategories.php...

[Presta-TR]

if(isset($category->id_parent)){ //i'm tried too variable and no comes parent of the $_GET['id_category']
       $id_c = $category->id_parent; // i'm tried too variable and no comes parent of the $_GET['id_category']
       }else{
       $id_c = 1;
       }

               $blockCategTree = $this->getTree($resultParents, $resultIds, Configuration::get('BLOCK_CATEG_MAX_DEPTH'), $id_c);

i'm pasted the my editted blockcategories .php please help no comes parent id

[rocky]

Try:

$id_parent = 1;

if (isset($_GET['id_category']))
{
       $category = new Category($_GET['id_category']);

       if (Validate::isLoadedObject($category))
               $id_parent = $category->id_parent;
}

$blockCategTree = $this->getTree($resultParents, $resultIds, Configuration::get('BLOCK_CATEG_MAX_DEPTH'), $id_parent);

[Presta-TR]

yes thx