Try the following

<?php
		echo ' T_('Categories'), ': ';
		$Item->categories();
?>

Thanks.

That didn't work. I already got the category id by doing this

global $cat;
print $cat;

but that is only one id.

I tried with $Item even adding a global $Item. but that didn't give the anything $Item seemed to be NULL.

Are you looking for a list of all main categories on any given page? Like for example if you have multiple posts on a page you want to know multiple main cat IDs?

In fact instead of trying to explain how about showing us a link to a couple of pages and tell us what you want to do with category info from across those pages?

EdB wrote:

Are you looking for a list of all main categories on any given page? Like for example if you have multiple posts on a page you want to know multiple main cat IDs?

In fact instead of trying to explain how about showing us a link to a couple of pages and tell us what you want to do with category info from across those pages?

I would like to give you some pages but I can't just yet, because it is still on our dev-server. Sorry about that.

But I think the $cat will do for now.

altough:

"Are you looking for a list of all main categories on any given page? Like for example if you have multiple posts on a page you want to know multiple main cat IDs?"

this would be nice too ;)

Ok, this may or may not work :

<?php
global $MainList;
$allMainCats = array();
while( $Item = & mainlist_get_item() )
{
$allMainCats[] = $Item->main_cat_ID;
}
$MainList->restart();

echo '<p>Main cats are : '.implode( ', ', $allMainCats ).'</p>'."\n";
?>

¥

Yep that worked, thanks very much to all.

I ran into this, as well. You might want to use the main category for an item, instead of just the $cat, in case you end up with nested categories or multiple categories for the same post.

Also note if you have multiple categories given (like the category list form which allows you to select multiple categories at once), the $cat will probably be empty.

For the main category, I used, like some of the others mentioned,

$cat_ID = $Item->main_cat_ID;

For the category, I used the following function, but note I assumed if multiple categories were selected, I arbitrarily decided I wanted the first one (I don't have the category multiple-selection available to the user anyway)

   function get_current_category()
   {
      $curr_cat = NULL;

      if ( isset( $GLOBALS[ 'catsel' ] )  )
      {
         $curr_cats = $GLOBALS[ 'catsel' ];
         if ( count ( $curr_cats ) > 0  && $curr_cats[ 0 ] > 0 )
         {
            $curr_cat = $curr_cats[ 0 ];
         }
      }
           
      if ( NULL == $curr_cat && isset( $GLOBALS[ 'cat' ] ) && $GLOBALS[ 'cat' ] > 0 )
      {
         $curr_cat = $GLOBALS[ 'cat' ];
      }

      return $curr_cat;
   }

You can see this code in action at www.thewildlifeporch.com with the vertical tabs on the left -- the current (root) category is displayed as selected. You can also see it with the breadcrumb category trail under the title of the post -- I end with the post's main category.

Hope this helps!

Cindy Rae