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accessing category description within smarty code?

hey guys

i have some smarty code that works - and outputs the category names and their ids and links.

Code:

{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}







{$categories[cat_num].category}: Learn more</p>



{/section}

what i want to do is throw the category description in there as well. i had hoped that throwing in this:

Code:

{$categories[cat_num].description}

might do the trick, but apparantly not (it seemed logical). can anyone reveal to me the secret?

thanks in advance,

murray

figured it out -- thought i'd post it here in case anyone was curious.

in categories.php, the code read:

Code:

if ($short_list) {

                $to_search = "$sql_tbl[categories].categoryid,$sql_tbl[categories].parentid,$sql_tbl[categories].categoryid_path,$sql_tbl[categories].category,$sql_tbl[categories].product_count,$sql_tbl[categories].avail,$sql_tbl[categories].order_by";

        } else {

                $to_search = "$sql_tbl[categories].*";

        }

i added the field i needed (description) to the SQL statement like this:

Code:

if ($short_list) {

                $to_search = "$sql_tbl[categories].categoryid,$sql_tbl[categories].description,$sql_tbl[categories].parentid,$sql_tbl[categories].categoryid_path,$sql_tbl[categories].category,$sql_tbl[categories].product_count,$sql_tbl[categories].avail,$sql_tbl[categories].order_by";

        } else {

                $to_search = "$sql_tbl[categories].*";

        }

this then allowed me to use

Code:

{$categories[cat_num].description}

in my categories.tpl

Hello Murray,

Nice hint.

Another hint. There is a simple way to see the structure of the hash:

Code:

{foreach name=foo item=bar from=$categories}

  {foreach key=key item=value from=$bar}

    {$key}: {$value}




  {/foreach}

  




  




{/foreach}

Best regards.