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I have an override for the category/blog.php layout and i want to display a headerimage and a subtitle with the custom fields introduced in joomla 3.7. For this implementation I already use Joomla 3.9.3.

I have already used custom fields in articles and it works fine, but not in categories.

To get this to work I limit this to the subtitle. On the screenshot you can see I added a custom field "subtitle" to Category and finally the input field for the subtitle will be placed only in categories (and not in articles).

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I tried to display the custom field like the ones in my articles in the other override in category/blog_item.php (-> https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Adding_custom_fields/Overrides, Section "Loading individual fields")

<?php // File location: /templates/templatename/html/com_content/category/blog.php // loop first to make the fields easy to reference via the field name as a key foreach($this->item->jcfields as $jcfield): $this->item->customFields[$jcfield->name] = $jcfield; endforeach; echo $this->item->customFields['subtitle']->label; echo $this->item->customFields['subtitle']->name; echo $this->item->customFields['subtitle']->value; echo $this->item->customFields['subtitle']->rawvalue; ?>

I also tried it with this code and only the name and the label of the custom field "subtitle" is displayed:

<?php foreach(FieldsHelper::getFields('com_content.categories', $child) as $field) : $child->customFields[$field->name] = $field; endforeach; echo $child->customFields['subtitle']->label; echo $child->customFields['subtitle']->name; echo $child->customFields['subtitle']->value; echo $child->customFields['subtitle']->rawvalue; ?>

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  • As a matter of best coding practices, please get in the habit of writing a single space before and after concatenating dots/commas. One of these days, you might be banging your head against the wall wondering why your "clearly accessed object" isn't being accessed. stackoverflow.com/q/8288414/2943403 (php version dependent outcomes regarding code ambiguity) For that matter, when I am echoing data, I always use commas for concatenation because it clarifies the script's action as "displaying" rather than concatenating while declaring -- which a dot must be used for. Commented Feb 22, 2019 at 22:54
  • We need more context. Where is this code placed exactly? Is $this->item really a category object? Does $this->item->jcfields actually contains the fields? Is $child a category object? Commented Feb 26, 2019 at 15:56

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I had pieces of my code from https://joomla.stackexchange.com/a/23675/13353, but this didn't help me.

And further today I found a solution on https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/23227.

The problem was, that i don't have the current category id. Now with this, it's working. Thank you @Sharky for your tip, what object is $child.

<?php $category = JRequest::getInt('id'); echo 'cat id is: '. $category; $currentCatFields = FieldsHelper::getFields('com_content.categories', $this->category, true); echo '<pre>',print_r($currentCatFields,1),'</pre>'; foreach ($currentCatFields as $field) : echo $field->label . ':' . $field->value; endforeach ?>
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  • You don't need to get category ID and assign it to $category (it's not the same as $this->category). You just needed to pass category object which you already had ($this->category instead of $this->item) to FieldsHelper::getFields(). Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 8:13
  • Also avoid using JRequest. It's been long deprecated and will not be available in Joomla 4. Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 8:14
  • Thank you for your explanation. Do I also get this work in index.php? Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 9:20
  • Category object is not available in template's index.php file. You'd have to retrieve it and its fields. See similar answer about articles joomla.stackexchange.com/a/23050/12652. Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 9:55

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