Category name of each ad to appear in ShowListings and ViewListings

[cat]

For each classified ad, I would like the name of the category which the ad was placed in to appear in ShowListings2 as well as the title, price, date placed, short description and whatever else. Also to appear in ViewListing. Does anyone know how to code that?

I am using v4.1.5 Developer

[Lhotch +]

Most of what a user sees regarding an ad can be turned on/off via the user groups.

After that, just like you other post, use the debug console to what variables you have available and if they do not already exist in the template, place the variable in the template where you would like its contents displayed.

[seymourjames +]

You will need to use the debug console and you will discover this {$getcats} .

So if you want it to be displayed next to each advert, you will need to pick up the appropriate category name from that array as you run through the table. However, is it not going to look a bit silly to have a whole column with the name just repeated? The category name from a browse is already given in the breadcrumb.

I would actually not display such a column on a showlistings which is derived from a browse operation and only get it to only show if you were deriving the listings from a search (i.e. the results are mixed and not from a single category). Hope that makes sense.

As for your second requirement {$categoryname} . Simply put this where you want it in the viewlisting file.

What I would like to say is you need to get familiar with the use of {debug} and invest in a bit of reading around the smarty language.