Direct Links to Product Manufacturer & Category

**MortalWombat** · 18 Aug 2015, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by lat9

Well, that's a bit more complicated, since (unless you're using the most-excellent SNAF plugin) the Specials, New, Advanced Search and Featured pages each have their own formatting scripts.

The basic construct that you'll use on each of the pages is to gather each product's product_id and master_categories_id (present in the SQL data returned, in a page-specific database object variable) into variables of the same name and then:

Code:

$display_category_name = '<h4 class="product-cat"><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . zen_get_product_path ($product_id)) . '">' . zen_get_category_name ($master_categories_id) . '</a></h4>';

You'll then need to echo the $display_category_name variable where you want it in the output.

OK, so I'm beginning to think this is out of my league. The alteration you supplied above makes the link disappear entirely and if I just use the href part, the link is still returning with no category ID, so I think I'll just settle for the category name with no link -- close enough is good enough, right?

Thanks for your help, anyway

**lat9** · 18 Aug 2015, 01:34 PM

Did you copy the product's product_id and master_categories_id from the database object to those named variables?

**MortalWombat** · 20 Aug 2015, 05:43 AM

Originally Posted by lat9

Did you copy the product's product_id and master_categories_id from the database object to those named variables?

Sorry, you just lost me... Could I get you to spell that out in layman's terms please?

**mc12345678** · 20 Aug 2015, 05:58 AM

Originally Posted by MortalWombat

Sorry, you just lost me... Could I get you to spell that out in layman's terms please?

Those two variables need to be assgned the values that they seem to represent...somewhere/somehow (usually in the pages directory either header_php.php or main_template_vars.php) $master_categories_id = $sql_query->fields['master_categories_id'] as an example...

Otherwise where you have $master_categories_id you could substitute:

Code:

zen_get_products_category_id((int)$_GET['products_id'])

And for $product_id you can smply use

Code:

(int)$_GET['products_id']

All a bit crude, but should work if you have been able to get that manufacturer id you were trying to pull from above.

**MortalWombat** · 20 Aug 2015, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by mc12345678

Those two variables need to be assgned the values that they seem to represent...somewhere/somehow (usually in the pages directory either header_php.php or main_template_vars.php) $master_categories_id = $sql_query->fields['master_categories_id'] as an example...

Otherwise where you have $master_categories_id you could substitute:

Code:

zen_get_products_category_id((int)$_GET['products_id'])

And for $product_id you can smply use

Code:

(int)$_GET['products_id']

All a bit crude, but should work if you have been able to get that manufacturer id you were trying to pull from above.

Since I'm not entirely clear on what I'm doing, the above doesn't seem to have helped.

Although I did successfully pull the manufacturer ID, that was on the product_info page, whereas this edit is all/featured/specials/new products listing pages.