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Read and display category ID in template
Posted: 01 Sep 2014, 08:21
by pat01
Hello
I have some nested categories.
How can I read the current Phoca Gallery category ID to display it in the Joomla Template?
Joomla 2.5.24 / Phoca Gallery 3.2.8
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much!
Pat
Re: Read and display category ID in template
Posted: 01 Sep 2014, 22:33
by Jan
Hi, sorry, I don't understand?
Jan
Re: Read and display category ID in template
Posted: 02 Sep 2014, 08:25
by pat01
Hello Jan
Example:
==> Top-Level Category
Fruits (ID 1)
==> ==> Sub-Category
Apples (ID 2)
The user klicks
Apples.
In the frontend I want to display: You are in Category
ID 2 with Top-Category
ID 1.
Inside of the index.php from the template I need some code to read the Phoca Gallery Category IDs.
For example with the following code I can read the Menu Itemid:
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$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
$activeId = $menu->getActive()->id;
I'm looking for such a code the read the Phoca Gallery Categories IDs.
Thank you very much.
Pat
Re: Read and display category ID in template
Posted: 06 Sep 2014, 01:03
by Jan
Hi, really not sure if your template can read the id directly:
- you can read it when you overwrite the html output with the template
- or you can try to get the ID but depends in which view you are - if you are in category view - you can get only one ID - the current category - in get value, there is only one ID - of the current category - to get other IDs - e.g. from parent or subcategories - you need to run sql query and get the info from database
Jan
Re: Read and display category ID in template
Posted: 06 Sep 2014, 08:27
by pat01
OK Jan, thank you. I'll try with an override.
Pat
Re: Read and display category ID in template
Posted: 07 Sep 2014, 15:17
by Jan
Ok