Category URL from zen_href_link

[digger149]

Hello,

I am trying to set up a series of footer links on my pages using product and category IDs. I am using zen_href_link() to get the full url from the ID - it works for products, but I cant get it to work for categories. Can anyone tell me what parameters to use in zen_href_link when the only info I have to pass to it is the category ID ?

Many thanks

[kobra]

Are these static hard links for the footer?

[digger149]

Both.
I have set up a database table, foot_links which contains link text, plus either product.id, category.id or fixed url.
In tpl_footer I then read the table and create the url link.
Creating the product url like this
$url = zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($links->fields['product']) , 'products_id=' . $links->fields['product'] . $product_url_add, 'NONSSL', false);

Works fine, but I cant figure out how to get the category url using this function.

[kobra]

Have a look at includes/functions/functions_categories.php and possibly categories_name

[digger149]

Many thanks, found the answer. In case anyone is looking and wants to know, the function should be

$url = zen_href_link('index', zen_get_path($links->fields['category']));

[gezuvor]

Is it possible to specify a certain category? If I wanted to create a link as above, but have it go directly to cPath=123, how would that be coded?

[kobra]

If I wanted to create a link as above, but have it go directly to cPath=123, how would that be coded?

use the href="index.php?main_page=index&cPath=123"
This for a relative hard code link

[gezuvor]

I am using that now, but it's not smart enough to discern between http and https pages, so the links in my categories sidebox are always http and my header/footer "hard links" are https when accessed from a secure page. I'm trying to use more elegant programming to allow these new links to behaving in a more native ZC fashion...

[kobra]

the links in my categories sidebox are always http

Exactly as this should be - - one usually does not want to run the catalog as htpps

my header/footer "hard links" are https when accessed from a secure page

Would have to see this in action

[gezuvor]

I will call you with the access information and post the results back here for others...