Get Top Level Category Name

[kidsstuff]

Hi all,
I need a way to get the top level category name from within the category sidebox.

Ex: I have these categories: Tables>Dining Tables>Metal>Product

When browsing any subcategory/product page from within Tables, I need that name fo something like: "You're now browsing Tables".
Only need to know how to get that name, the rest is simple.

Any pointers are greatly appreciated!

[kobra]

For the php to extract you might find it in
/includes/classes/breadcrumb.php
and/or
/includes/init_includes/init_add_crumbs.php

[kidsstuff]

Thanks Cobra.
I'm looking at how $breadcrumb->last() function works in tpl_index categories.php.

So I made another function inside breadcrumb.php, like:

  function first() {

    $trail_size = sizeof($this->_trail);

    return $this->_trail[$trail_size-2]['title'];

  } 

Which works fine, but now i'm stuck on how to make that number what I need. I tried:

  function first() {

    $trail_size = sizeof($this->_trail);

    return $this->_trail[$trail_size-($trail_size-1]['title'];

  } 

, which gave me this error: PHP Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context.

What else can I try?

[Ajeh]

See if this works for you:
(int)$_GET['cPath']

That is available when navigating the Category Tree ...

When cPath is 3_10, the results would be 3 ...

[gjh42]

Since you want the top category name, which will always be the second item in the trail after Home, how about this

  function first() {

    $trail_size = sizeof($this->_trail);

    return $this->_trail[1]['title'];

  } 

[1] is the second field in that array.


Or yes, use the information globally available instead of making a new function. You can use an existing zen_get... function to get the category name from the id that Linda's suggestion yields.

[kidsstuff]

Thanks a lot!
Linda, I tried that, which brings up the id number of the top level category, but it works only for index pages, not for product pages, for which it brings up 0.

I tried with:

zen_get_category_name((int)$_GET['cPath'], (int)$_SESSION['languages_id']) 

Glenn, thank you very much for the get_zen function hint, I found it using the developers toolkit.

It is now working great using that function in breadcrumb.php.
This was fun, I learned a lot today!