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[jvolvovski]

Hi,
I'm trying to retrieve a parent category id for products on the search results page.
There doesn't seem to be any variables that refer to a category name/id/etc.

Is there a way for me to create a new variable?

I'm using this for the category pages:
{if $current_category.parentid eq 249 || $cat eq 249}{else}{/if}
and would want to recreate this same structure on the search page.

Thanks!
Jenny

[qualiteam]

Search results can contain products from different categories...

You can try creating a Smarty modifier for the purpose and further use it like this: {$product.productid|get_parent_category} in the templates.

To create a new Smarty modifier plugin create the "include/templater/plugins/modifier.get_product_parent_category.php" script with the following content:

PHP Code:

<?php 

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

function smarty_modifier_get_product_parent_category($productid) {
        global $sql_tbl;

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

?>