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1. steweill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is there a simple way to get the parent category (if the page you're on - so to speak - is a sub-sub-category), and then populate an array with its children's children?

   Thanks in advance anyone :)

2. steweill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Actually I have changed things a bit. My new question - altho related - is this:

   How do you get the topmost parent category, then it's child's children?

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php $parent_cats = strip_tags( wp_list_categories('title_li&depth=1&echo=0') );?>

   will give you a list of all top level categories. You could then use cat_is_ancestor_of to determine which of these is your current sub-cat's ancestor. Once you have the right ancestor name, get_cat_ID will provide its ID which you can then use with get_categories to obtain an array of the whole tree or with wp_list_categories to display the tree.

   <?php
   $this_category = get_category($cat);
   $parent_cats = strip_tags( wp_list_categories('title_li&depth=1&echo=0') );
   foreach( $parent_cats as $parent_cat ) {
   	$parent_id = get_cat_ID( $parent_cat );
   	if(cat_is_ancestor_of( $parent_id, $this_category->cat_ID ) {
   		echo '<pre>';
   		print_r(get_categories('&child_of='. $parent_id) );
   		echo '</pre>';
   	}
   }
   ?>

4. steweill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks so much esmi -

   I've been troubleshooting around with this code you left, and I seem to have trouble getting
strip_tags( wp_list_categories('title_li&depth=1&echo=0') );

   to return an array, I'm getting a string. How can I get it to return (or convert to) an array? Does echo=0 render it a string? can we create an array with get_terms()?

   Thanks again.

5. steweill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi again esmi,

   I've used explode() and it appears I'm getting an array of one: all categories are being output. They all get output again if I just echo the array iteration $parentcat[0]. Nothing comes up for $parentcat[1] and so on. If I output $parent_cats variable it doe indeed output "Array". Do you know how I could break it down further so I can then go ahead and test it for 'cat_is_ancestor_of'.

   
if(is_category())
{
$this_category = get_query_var('cat');
$parent_cats = strip_tags( wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=1&echo=0') );

   $parent_cats = explode(",", $parent_cats);

   foreach ($parent_cats as $parentcat) {
   echo "$parentcat";

   }

   }

   I'm not a php coder so some basic stuff eludes me - sorry.

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry - I missed a step. Amended code:

   <?php
   $this_category = get_category($cat);
   $parents = strip_tags( wp_list_categories('title_li&depth=1&echo=0') );
   $parent_cats = explode("\n\n",$parents);
   foreach( $parent_cats as $parent_cat ) {
   	$parent_id = get_cat_ID( trim($parent_cat) );
   	if(cat_is_ancestor_of( $parent_id, $this_category->cat_ID ) ) {
   		echo '<pre>';
   		print_r(get_categories('&child_of='. $parent_id) );
   		echo '</pre>';
   	}
   }
   ?>

7. PaulWarren
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This is so close to what I am looking for... how would I amend this code to get the topmost category's child categories rather then it's child's child's categories?

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