Display parent catagory name.

[Sion.S]

Hi all. 

Just wondering if there is a simple way to display the name of the parent catagory on a page, if customer is on a sub catagory?

 

im not great at coding, but the logic would be something like:

if catagory depth greater than 1, echo parent catagory name,  else echo current catagory name. 

 

Cheers. 

Sion. 

[Jack_mcs]

If you have the breadcrumb showing, it will display the path. But that is not on the actual page and may not be what you want.

On sub-category pages, the $cPath variable will be set to something like XX_YY, where XX is the parent category and YY is the sub-category. So you could break that apart and get the category name for the parent. Or, you can change the MySQL statement to get the parent_id and then get its name. Either way will work. If you are using a newer version you can use the category class to return the name. So there are many ways to do it. Without knowing your version and experience level, it won't help to go into much detaul.

[burt]

 

At the very least always state what version osCommerce you are using.  
Old versions have different ways to do things than new versions.