not category_parent but category_grandparent

  • paulwordpress

    (@paulwordpress)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    how do i detect if the grandparent of a category is a certain category

    so i have

    at the top level a category called ‘location’ (7)
    then i have a child category called ‘australia’
    then inside australia i have ‘sydney’

    when i tick ‘sydney’ i want to detact if it is a grandchild of ‘location’

    sort of like:

    foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat){
    if ($cat->category_parent == 7){ echo $cat->cat_name;
    }
    }

    but with “$cat->category_grandparent” instead.

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  • Thread Starter paulwordpress

    (@paulwordpress)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    nevermind, i got it!

    foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat){
    $cat_country_ID = $cat->category_parent;
    $cat_country = get_category($cat_country_ID);
    if ($cat_country->category_parent == 7){
    echo $cat->cat_name.’, ‘.$cat_country->cat_name;
    }
    }

    gee, i’m smart 🙂

    mhdhallak

    (@mhdhallak)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you! After a long tiresome search, your answer helped quite indirectly: to write a function that retrieve the root parent category of any category (you can have multiple level nesting in WordPress).

    For anyone who’s interested, here’s the function:

    <?php function get_root_parent_category($start_cat)
    {
    if ($start_cat->category_parent != 0)
    {
    $parent = get_category($start_cat->category_parent);
    return get_root_parent_category($parent);
    }
    else
    {
    return $start_cat;
    }
    }

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