Sorry if it has already been asked but I couldn't find an answer on the forum.
On my item template, the name of the category is displayed but I would like to add the description and the image of the category. Is it possible ?
Thanks for your support
mmm, the most straightforward way, would be to query the category database table.
So you can enter the following, at the place you like in your item.php file of your template.
Code:
// Get current category OR If current category is not set in the URL, we will use the item's main category
$cid = JRequest::getInt('cid', $this->item->catid);
// Get category data from DB
$db = & JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT * from #__categories "
." WHERE id='".$cid."'";
$db->setQuery($query);
$curcat = $db->loadObject(); // or die($db->getErrorMsg());
// Use category data
echo "<span class='flexi_currcat_title_label'>".JText::_('Category Title')."</span>: ";
echo "<span class='flexi_currcat_title_value'>".$curcat->title."</span><br>";
echo "<span class='flexi_currcat_descr_label'>".JText::_('Category Description')."</span>: ";
echo "<div class='flexi_currcat_descr_value'>";
echo "<img class='flexi_currcat_image_value' src='".JURI::base(true)."/images/stories/".$curcat->image."' title='".$curcat->title."' align='".$curcat->image_position."' />";
echo mb_substr($curcat->title, 0, $maxdescrchars=150);
echo "</div>";
Use the css classes to style your output, also you may want to put inside <img ...> a: width='250' instead of using the css class
Regards
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Some things are more straightforward to do than others and what you needed was straightforward, and i think your request could be useful to more people, so i am considering adding this to the standard templates
E.g to the category parameters (in its template specific parameters) and then also allow each individual item to override this (again not in its standard parameters but in its template specific parameters)
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