My goal:
I want to generate a link that points to a category of products. For example if a category is named "Education" the link would say "Check out our Education Category!"

It would also be cool if the link was dynamically created to point to the category that is displayed first in the category sidebox.

How I'd like to do it:
Import the same function that generates the category sidebox; this will probably be accomplished by requiring the /modules/sideboxes/categories.php file.

The question I am asking:
What require statement would import the category.php file correctly utilizing the zen-cart framework. Or, if there is an alternate implementation, I'm open to suggestions .


I understand there will be more database calls if I do it this way, do you have an alternate implementation.

Thanks for the response DrByte.