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[ChristineP]

Ashley, I've tried using the root category in my products.tpl and with our flyout categories mod, but no cigar. I ended up creating other templates to get the result that I wanted, but it was far more work. If you find an answer for capturing the root category, please post it.

[TBone]

Try this:

{$current_category.categoryid_path|regex_replace:" /\/[0-9\/]*/":""}

this fetches the root category from the path. It finds the first "/" and replaces everything after it with nothing leaving the current root cat id.

Hope this helps.

[hollaratbear]

Has anybody gotten any of these to work? I've been looking to implement this as well. I tried a few suggestions here but no dice......

[ARW VISIONS]

nope never got it to work.

[Jon]

I always like keeping processing in php when possible.

Open home.php

FIND:

require $xcart_dir."/include/categories.php";

AFTER ADD:

// WCM - Get Root Cat (customization)
$wcmRootCat = func_query_first("SELECT categoryid,category FROM $sql_tbl[categories] WHERE categoryid='" . (int)current(explode('/',($current_category['categoryid_path']))) . "'");
$current_category['root_categoryid'] = $wcmRootCat['categoryid'];
$current_category['root_category'] = $wcmRootCat['category'];
$smarty->assign('current_category',$current_category);
// / WCM - Get Root Cat (customization)

In your template use:

{if $current_category.root_categoryid eq X}
    The root category for this is: {$current_category.root_category}.
{else}
Something else
{/if}

[Jon]

Just reviewed the reason behind needing this and our Category Map module be be a solution: http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/x-cart-seo-category-map.html

[Duramax 6.6L]

Could someone please explain in detail why this is so important.

[Jon]

Why what in particular is so important?