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Apr 20, 2008, 11:41 AM

Eraser

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Apr 20, 2008, 11:41 AM

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Getting Category info Via an ID

I need to get a category detailes in a loop like <%category_loop%> would return, but by passing in a Category ID.

Some somthing like:

<%CatInfo($123)%>
<%loop catinfo%>
xxxxx
<%endloop%>

Has this been done? I see lots of globals for getting cat info related to a Link ID, but not a Cat ID.

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Apr 20, 2008, 11:53 AM

Andy

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Apr 20, 2008, 11:53 AM

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Hi,

Not 100% sure what you are trying to do? If you are just passing in a category ID, you could use:

<%get_category_details(1234)%> (where 1234 is the category you want to get the details for)

Global: get_category_details

Code:
sub { 
   my $cat = $DB->table('Category')->select( { ID => $_[0] } )->fetchrow_hashref; 
   return $cat; 
}

Is that what your after?

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Apr 20, 2008, 12:03 PM

Eraser

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Apr 20, 2008, 12:03 PM

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Re: [Andy] Getting Category info Via an ID In reply to

Indded it is!

I had a much longer piece of code but diddnt work, so I gave up on it.

Many thanks Andy, works good, and wow - simply too!

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Apr 20, 2008, 12:14 PM

Andy

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Apr 20, 2008, 12:14 PM

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heheh - np. Simple is always good <G>

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Andy (mod)
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