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[abeight]

One of my clients would like to have a link to a product's category in the product listing (customer/main/products_t.tpl). It would be similar to the featured products seen on this site: http://www.ncix.com/ - See how it says "More Processors" etc and links to the category? Does anyone know the smarty code to do this?

The cart version is 4.1.1

Thanks!!

[furthermobile]

I would be interested in that too. Anyone have a suggestion?

Jamie

xcartpro 4.1.1 [unix]

[dalmuti]

Anyone have an answer for this....what variable would be used to add the category name to the featured products or products listing for 4.1.x?

Thanks,

Louise

[presson83]

Hi All,
I would like to do this same thing (get a hold of the category name / id and use it in my featured products listing). Does anyone know how to alter the product query to include the stinking category of the product in the product array?!?!?

[rvcapital]

Also searching for this... A shitload of junk in the smarty variables, yet a simple category of the product nowhere to be found!

[qualiteam]

Here is a quick mod for this:

1. create a new Smarty modifier plugin -> "include/templater/plugins/modifier.getproductmaincat.php" with the following content:

PHP Code:

<?php

if (!defined('XCART_START')) { header("Location: ../../../"); die("Access denied"); }

function smarty_modifier_getproductmaincat($productid) {
        global $sql_tbl;

        return func_query_first_cell("SELECT categoryid FROM $sql_tbl[products_categories] WHERE productid='$productid' AND main='Y'");
}

?>

2. add something like this:

<a href="home.php?cat={$products[product].productid|getproductmaincat}">{$lng.lbl_more}</a>

anywhere inside main section loop in the "skin1/customer/main/products_t.tpl" template.

e.g. right before this code -> {*** Uncomment it if you need 'Buy Now' button ***

[tqualizerman]

This didn't work for me. :\

On my 4.1.10 build I was able to use the following: {$current_category.category} on product.tpl but on my 4.4 evaluation its not working.

I need to show the category link on the product page. Is there any way to do this?

[tqualizerman]

Has anyone been able to show the category name on product.tpl in 4.4x?

[qualiteam]

1. create a new Smarty modifier plugin -> "include/templater/plugins/modifier.getcatnamebyid.php" with the following content:

PHP Code:

<?php

if (!defined('XCART_START')) { header("Location: ../../../"); die("Access denied"); }  

function smarty_modifier_getcatnamebyid($categoryid) {  
        global $sql_tbl; 

        x_load("category");

        $category = func_get_category_data($categoryid);

        return isset($category["category"]) ? $category["category"] : "";
} 

?>

2. add something like this:

{$smarty.get.cat|getcatnamebyid}

into the "skin/common_files/customer/main/product.tpl" template.

[tqualizerman]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately this solution doesn't seem to output anything though.