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So I have a page that is displaying a product summary as a list.

On the same page I have a Category dropdown.

I want to display the details of the chosen Category on the page each time a different Category is selected.

I'm using this code to get the Category ID from the URL. Then 'products_getcategory' smarty plugin pulls in the Category details. This works perfectly to display the name of the Category - {$caty->name} but it doesn't work to display Category custom fields.
They are also missing when I use {$caty|print_r}.

I'm sure I'm missing something. If you've got this to work please let me know how.

Thanks
Simon66

I didn't know that Categories in the Products modules had custom fields?

Are you thinking of the individual product custom fields?

Hi Jeff
Yes, the products module allows you to add additional 'Category Fields' to each separate category.

They should be accessible via the products module smarty plugin:
{products_getcategory categoryid=1 assign='tmp'}

The help for this smarty plugin says " The returned is an object containing all of the information about a category, including its field values."

But I am stumped as to how the field values are displayed. I can only display the basic category name and id info.

I've uploaded an image of the 'Category Fields'.

Simon66

I think those fields are only available in the category template which I think is used with action=....

I thinks it's broken. Had a look at the source and think it's a bug.

BTW: you should post system information when posting questions like this. http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/troublesh ... nformation

Thanks Velden.
Yeah, sorry about the info:
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Cms Version: 1.11.11

Installed Modules:

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Config Information:

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locale:
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admin_encoding: utf-8
set_names: true


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gd_version: 2
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session_save_path: No check because OS path
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xml_function: On (True)
xmlreader_class: On (True)


Server Information:

Server Api: cgi-fcgi
Server Db Type: MySQL (mysqli)
Server Db Version: 5.1.70
Server Db Grants: Could not find a suitable "GRANT ALL" permission. This may mean you could have problems installing or removing modules. Or even adding and deleting items, including pages
Server Time Diff: No filesystem time difference found


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You have
phpversion: 5.3.28-pl3-gentoo

the newer CG-Modules need at least PHP 5.4

talk with your hoster.

Kind regards,
Jan