Hi David.
I have a relative big site using custom hierarchy (pt_categories_hierarchy has 400 rows) so I can't not display all listing. Also, I can't display them via AJAX, so it is not good for SEO.
I am trying to implement some kind of algorithm to display a mega menu and to show only a few categories based on where you are. Have you ever posted something about this in the forum?
But specially, what I am asking,is that for building this menu, I would need some function that I don't know if exists. All my names in pt_categories hierarchy are unique. So I need a function that when you pass the name (no the path), it returns the URL. Is it possible?
Example:
tapestry_buildCategoryFromName('monitors') // it returns example.com/cat/electronics/computing/monitors
Thanks!
Woww! Exactly David, it is perfect. Thank you very much, it works like a charm.
Hi,
Sure - use the following function pair to do the trick (based on how the category path is constructed from an ID in, for example admin/categories_hierarchy_configure.php)...
function getCategoryPath($id){
global $config_databaseTablePrefix;
$categories = array();
do {
$sql = "SELECT name,parent FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."categories_hierarchy` WHERE id = '".$id."'";
database_querySelect($sql,$rows);
array_unshift($categories,$rows[0]["name"]);
} while($id = $rows[0]["parent"]);
return implode("/",$categories);
}
function buildCategoryFromName($name)
{
global $config_databaseTablePrefix;
$sql = "SELECT id FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."categories_hierarchy` WHERE name='".database_safe($name)."'";
if (database_querySelect($sql,$rows))
{
$path = getCategoryPath($rows[0]["id"]);
return tapestry_indexHREF("category",$path);
}
return FALSE;
}
And then for example;
<a href='<?php print buildCategoryFromName("Monitors"); ?>'>Monitors</a>Cheers,
David.
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