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Title: Change in the way category image is retrieved?
Post by: ginxy33 on May 13, 2013, 20:20:46 PM

I programmed a mod to show categories in a slider on a home page. Now I updated to VirtueMart 2.0.20b and I can't get the images to show. It throws and error stating that I can't use "displayMediaThumb" on a none object.
Here is my original code that worked before

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<?php foreach ($categories as $category) {
		$caturl = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_category_id='.$category->virtuemart_category_id);
		$cattext = $category->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);   ?>
			<li><?php echo JHTML::link($caturl, $cattext);?></li>
	<?php } ?>

I can get the category name and the url to work with no problem. I did a var_dump and came up with this object.

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object(stdClass)#288 (9) {
  ["virtuemart_category_id"]=>
  string(1) "3"
  ["category_name"]=>
  string(5) "Gifts"
  ["category_description"]=>
  string(15) "<p>
	Gifts</p>"
  ["metadesc"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["metakey"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["customtitle"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["slug"]=>
  string(5) "gifts"
  ["virtuemart_media_id"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(2) "25"
  }
  ["childs"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
}
<li><a href="/shop/gifts" >Gifts</a></li>

Any ideas how I can now retrieve the image information?

Title: Re: Change in the way category image is retrieved?
Post by: Mathalis on May 14, 2013, 20:04:59 PM

Hello,

It was working before or ? Can you rexplain your problem ?

Regards

Title: Re: Change in the way category image is retrieved?
Post by: mySITE4u on June 07, 2013, 13:47:46 PM

Quote from: ginxy33 on May 13, 2013, 20:20:46 PM
I programmed a mod to show categories in a slider on a home page. Now I updated to VirtueMart 2.0.20b and I can't get the images to show. It throws and error stating that I can't use "displayMediaThumb" on a none object.
Here is my original code that worked before
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<?php foreach ($categories as $category) { $caturl = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_category_id='.$category->virtuemart_category_id); $cattext = $category->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false); ?> <li><?php echo JHTML::link($caturl, $cattext);?></li> <?php } ?>

I can get the category name and the url to work with no problem. I did a var_dump and came up with this object.
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object(stdClass)#288 (9) { ["virtuemart_category_id"]=> string(1) "3" ["category_name"]=> string(5) "Gifts" ["category_description"]=> string(15) "<p> Gifts</p>" ["metadesc"]=> string(0) "" ["metakey"]=> string(0) "" ["customtitle"]=> string(0) "" ["slug"]=> string(5) "gifts" ["virtuemart_media_id"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(2) "25" } ["childs"]=> array(0) { } } <li><a href="/shop/gifts" >Gifts</a></li>

Any ideas how I can now retrieve the image information?

Hi!
Open mod_virtuemart_categories.php

find these lines:

$cache = & JFactory::getCache('com_virtuemart','callback');
$categories = $cache->call( array( 'VirtueMartModelCategory', 'getChildCategoryList'
),$vendorId, $category_id );

near line 40

Then put in this line:
$categoryModel->addImages($categories,1);

This is it! :)

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