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alexandria
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10 years 3 months ago - 10 years 3 months ago #135658 by alexandria

SOLVED - Display category name in tag.php was created by alexandria

Hello,

I have a module k2 tool cloud pointing to a subcategory 'sports"
when i click on "snowboard" tag, i want 'sports' to display before the title tag "snowboard' and all the items.

I tried :

<?php foreach($this->items as $item): ?>
						<?php $parentName = $item->category->parent; ?>
						<?php endforeach; ?>
						
						<?php // show id for help)
						echo $parentName; ?>
						
						<?php if ($parentName == 4)
						echo "sports";
						?>

It works but it's not very good, maybe there is something simple than that

can you please help me for this ?
Thanks

Last edit: 10 years 3 months ago by alexandria.

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alexandria
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10 years 3 months ago #135666 by alexandria

Replied by alexandria on topic Display category name in tag.php

Finally i will write the name of the parent category inside the description of the child category like this :

<h3>Sports</h3>

and write this in tag.php :

<?php foreach($this->items as $item): ?>
						<?php $parentCatName = $item->category->description; ?>
					<?php endforeach; ?>						
	<header>
			<?php echo $parentCatName; ?>
			<h3><?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('page_title')); ?></h3>
	</header>

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Krikor Boghossian
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10 years 3 months ago #135673 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Display category name in tag.php

You can also map the tag into a menu item under sports and use breadcrumbs. This way you will have the /sports/snowboard in your site and in your URLs.

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alexandria
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10 years 3 months ago #135684 by alexandria

Replied by alexandria on topic Display category name in tag.php

Wow i haven't even thought about breadcrumb module, i had already set a menuitem but i didn"t know menuitems have to be under the good parent link to show correctly in the breadcrumb, i learned something.
But i badly explained at first that my category is like that : sports/winter/snowboard, it's why i have so much problems to catch the parent category.
Only one problem i see, its some tags are cities, so i have to copy the same tags under a lot of subcategories in the menu but despite that, breadcrumb seems the best way to go and it will free me to use the 'description' category.

Thanks Krikor, it helps a lot.

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alexandria
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10 years 3 months ago - 10 years 3 months ago #135686 by alexandria

Replied by alexandria on topic Display category name in tag.php

I was wrong, i don"t have to copy the same tags of cities in every submenu , i have to place them under the parent link ahead like news
then breadcrumb show news/sports/winter/Mexico
Its even better!

Thanks again :)

PS : Talked too fast,
It show only news/Mexico
i have to link to Sports menuitem and it show news/sports/Mexico like you said Krikor, and it's good
:)

Last edit: 10 years 3 months ago by alexandria.

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Krikor Boghossian
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10 years 3 months ago #135769 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Display category name in tag.php

Glad to hear that it is solved :)

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