category name?

[IATIA]

ZenCart v1.5.5e
Apache server (Hostmatters)
PHP 5.6.31 (Zend: 2.6.0)
MySQL 5.6.37
About_us page
dbio 1.3.0
MainImageReplacer-v1.0
Image_Handler4_v4.3.2

I am looking for the variable for the catalog. I found a dirty way to do it after searching trial and error on getting the category name. I put $category into the admin developer tool kit and tried ?all? the different ones I could find, but to no avail.

I have this code inserted in the main template (index.php) @ "Load general code run before page closes".

    $this_page = META_TAG_TITLE;

    $this_page = substr($this_page, 0, strpos($this_page, ":")-1);

    // if there is a product name //

    if (isset($products_name))

    {
        $this_page = $products_name;
    }

    // if $this_page = 0 //

    elseif (!strlen($this_page))
    {
        $this_page = "Store";
    }
    echo $this_page;  // temporary for troubleshooting // 

Just wondering if there is not a better way. (at least it is not as dirty and unstable as my product name code was)

[DrByte]

Let's back up a couple miles.

What's the big picture of the overall project you're doing here? What's the business problem you're trying to solve?
(I think your question is too granular, and thus any attempt at an answer will probably just lead us in circles. Need more context.)

[IATIA]

It started as a monitoring of page views and ultimately, it will be part of the subject line for the 'Contact Us' page.

Everything is working just fine. It just seems that there should be a variable for the category as well as the product. It may ultimately be necessary to ZEN it out of an array, in which case, I will probably leave the code as is.

And I should add. My post on re-read is somewhat ambiguous.

I am looking to change this;

$this_page = META_TAG_TITLE;
$this_page = substr($this_page, 0, strpos($this_page, ":")-1);

Into something like this;

$this_page = $category_name;

Attachment 17220

[DrByte]

$cPath contains the full cPath from the URL, such as: 3_10_17

$current_category_id is just the actual category number, such as: 17

zen_get_category_name($current_category_id, (int)$_SESSION['languages_id']) will give you the name for that category, from the database: "Toys"

[IATIA]

Thanks!