Category ID known - how to retrieve path?

[Don Chambers]

From an index.tpl file, I want to get the path to a category's entries (ie, http://www.mysite.com/categories/2-examplecategory). I already know the category number (ie 2). And it probably has to work regardless of URL rewriting. Is this possible?

I suppose it would be the equivalent of {$entry_category.category_link} in entries.tpl, but this is from index.tpl.

Ideas???

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I guess you'd need a custom smarty function to wrap around the s9y api "serendipity_categoryURL()" function call to put into your templates' config.inc.php file.

Or you could link to index.php?serendipity[category]=2

Regards,
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

Thanks Garvin - the serendipity_categoryURL() did the trick, along with the expert input of Judebert who I constantly harass anytime I see him using IM!!!

[tpost]

*bump*

Can somebody outline what is needed in the config.inc.php file?

I couldn't find any documentation on the serendipity_categoryURL() function.
A link to the documentation could help as well!

Thanks in advance!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The documentation to that function can be found inside include/functions_permalinks.inc.php.

A sample code in the config.inc.php could be:

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function smarty_categoryURL($params, &$smarty) {
  $data = serendipity_fetchCategoryInfo($params['id']);
  return serendipity_categoryURL($data);
}

$serendipity['smarty']->register_function('smarty_categoryURL', 'smarty_categoryURL');

then you can use this inside your .tpl files:

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<a href="{smarty_categoryURL id=7}">Category #7</a>

HTH
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

Garvin's reply looks a lot simpler than what I am using.

[tpost]

Thanks Garvin!
That helped!