Get Top Level Category Name

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!

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

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?

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 ...

Since you want the top category name, which will always be the second item in the trail after Home, how about this```php
function first() {

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

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

}

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.

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! :flex: