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1. clicknathan
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Does anyone know how one might check to see if a category has a parent category?

   Specifically I'm trying to create a breadcrumb that outputs something like:

   Home » Parent Category » Subcategory

   But I'd like to be able to replace "Parent Category" with "if Subcategory has Parent Category, echo Parent Category" type of thing.

2. aaffleck
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I would really like to do the same if anyone knows how.

3. Ivovic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   sure...
   I do it like this for my categories:

   <div id="breadcrumbs">
   <a href="<?php echo get_bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="">Home</a>
   <?php
     $breadcrumbs = explode('|',get_category_parents($cat,true,'|'));
     array_pop($breadcrumbs);
     array_pop($breadcrumbs);
     if ($breadcrumbs) foreach ($breadcrumbs as $crumb) echo ' / '.$crumb;
   ?>
   </div>
   <h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>

   That takes the current category off the end, and returns true on the last line only if your category has parents (and/or grandparents, etc.)

   if you don't want to remove the category you're in now, just remove one of those array_pop lines. I remove the current category so I can put it into that h1 tag underneath. You can see it working on my blog.

   if you just wanted to check for the top-level parent, you would just need to look at the first element in the $breadcrumbs array.

   if ($breadcrumbs) echo $breadcrumbs[0];

   hope that helps.

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