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[International Living]

hey guys

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

{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:

{$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

[International Living]

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

in categories.php, the code read:

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:

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

{$categories[cat_num].description}

in my categories.tpl

[Alphatim]

Hello Murray,

Nice hint.

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

{foreach name=foo item=bar from=$categories}
  {foreach key=key item=value from=$bar}
    {$key}: {$value}

  {/foreach}
  

  

{/foreach}

Best regards.