Comments on: Display Parent category and subcategories of current parent in Magento

By: 9sixes

9sixes — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:20:44 +0000

I’ve been hunting “everywhere” for this! Thanks a million!!

By: Leanne

Leanne — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:24:46 +0000

Thanks! This works on all Category pages but it is causing a fatal error on the homepage and all other pages not associated with a Category. I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getParentId() on a non-object…

Can you help?

Thanks

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:19:08 +0000

Sorry this was built for use within the Magento category sections only.
We used different layouts to avoid any errors elsewhere; will take further R&D to get working across Magento.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:23:25 +0000

I’ve been looking everywhere for this!!!

Thanks heaps!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:16:06 +0000

Glad it was helpful Pat

By: Confused

Confused — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:42:49 +0000

Could you explain where this code needs to be inserted please.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:31:18 +0000

We used it in the sidebar of one of our templates, so that sub-cats of the current cat would display:

/app/design/frontend/default/your-bespoke-design-template/template/catalog/navigation/leftnav.phtml

Example of it working:
http://www.summitjunkie.co.uk/mountains

By: Beauty-Presence

Beauty-Presence — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:06:08 +0000

I get an error when I insert this code… sorry I don’t really know PHP so probably it’s very to fix, the error is at the end of the code snippet..

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDFOREACH in \app\design\frontend\bp\bp-theme\template\catalog\category\view.phtml on line 76

By: Beauty-Presence

Beauty-Presence — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:08:24 +0000

oops I posted on the wrong place, this works nicely!

By: Animesh Sheolikar

Animesh Sheolikar — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:55:20 +0000

Thanks .It was beautiful and effortless coding

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:02:24 +0000

@Leanne–You just need to add a conditional statement to prevent that code from running on non-category pages:

if (Mage::registry(’current_category’)){
//insert your category code here
}

By: Matthew Galvin

Matthew Galvin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:02:26 +0000

Any idea how to get this to return the subcats in their proper order?
This code displays them listed by id ASC and I want to order by position ASC

By: Caleb

Caleb — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:51:51 +0000

Thanks for posting this code! Is there a way to apply an active class to the subcategory link? So when you are in the subcategory page it will be highlighted in the navigation?

By: vignesh

vignesh — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:55:35 +0000

How can i arrange the Categories by ASC order by name..

By: vignesh

vignesh — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:06:32 +0000

i have to display categories in the page same like this.

Example of it working:
http://www.summitjunkie.co.uk/mountains

Subcategories for mountains
Ben Nevis
Buachaille Etive Mor.. etc

Showing there in Ascending order by name.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:40:54 +0000

To add a sort to the list, try using the code found in this thread:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/227052/

By: Power Balance

Power Balance — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:06:58 +0000

Display SubCategory of current Parent category, i had try, that’s good help me.

By: Top Englsih Songs

Top Englsih Songs — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:32:40 +0000

It works like a charm, Thanks!!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:24:16 +0000

Worked like a charm, thanks!

By: HFE

HFE — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:36:39 +0000

good post dude thanks

By: tarek

tarek — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:34:40 +0000

hi, I would like if u can add to this code the possibility of a toolbar for navigating between sub-categories pages if it will be viewed in more than one page. And thank you.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:02:29 +0000

Thanks so much have been working on a few different ways to accomplish this for last few hours. This is great!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:45:56 +0000

Great code! Worked like a charm.

Is it possible to highlight the current subcategorie?

Thanks!

By: Shweta

Shweta — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:05:27 +0000

i applied that code but its not working.
Is that any configuration from backend.

By: Juliana

Juliana — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:50:45 +0000

Thank you for this code. It’s work perfect.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:51:57 +0000

Thank you for code, works great.

Thanks!

By: vivek shingala

vivek shingala — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:58:22 +0000

thanx thanx thanx…
helped a lot…
keep it up…!!