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I have a file that is successfully looping through my categories and subcategories. I am successfully able to echo all the categories and their links onto this page

http://firstaidmart.com/list-all-categories.html

BUT

I do not see why these (keywords and description) are not echoing

<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->getKeywords()) ?> <?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->getDescription()) ?>

The file is located here app/design/frontend/mystoretheme/default/template/catalog/category/listofcats.phtml

Then im placing it on a block in a cms page {{block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.category" template="catalog/category/listofcats.phtml"}}

The goal is to be able to display each of the categories list of keywords and their descriptions within the same < li > and loop giving me a list like this

  • Category
  • Keywords
  • Description

Here is my code. I have omitted my attempts at keyword and description since they are not working.

<div class="block block-list block-categories"> <div id="block-categories" class="block-title active"> <strong><span>Categories </span></strong> </div> <div id="leftnav" class="block-content" style="display:block"> <?php $helper = $this->helper('catalog/category') ?> <?php $categories = $this->getStoreCategories() ?> <?php if (count($categories) > 0): ?> <ul id="leftnav-tree" class="level0"> <?php foreach($categories as $category): ?> <li class="level0<?php if ($this->isCategoryActive($category)): ?> active<?php endif; ?>"> <a href="<?php echo $helper->getCategoryUrl($category) ?>"><span><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($category->getName()) ?></span></a> <?php //if ($this->isCategoryActive($category)): ?> <?php $subcategories = $category->getChildren() ?> <?php if (count($subcategories) > 0): ?> <ul id="leftnav-tree-<?php echo $category->getId() ?>" class="level1"> <?php foreach($subcategories as $subcategory): ?> <li class="level1<?php if ($this->isCategoryActive($subcategory)): ?> active<?php endif; ?>"> <a href="<?php echo $helper->getCategoryUrl($subcategory) ?>"><?php echo $this->escapeHtml(trim($subcategory->getName(), '- ')) ?></a> <?php $secondLevelSubcategories = $subcategory->getChildren() ?> <?php if (count($secondLevelSubcategories ) > 0): ?> <ul id="leftnav-tree-<?php echo $subcategory->getId() ?>" class="level2"> <?php foreach($secondLevelSubcategories as $secondLevelSubcategory ): ?> <li class="level2<?php if ($this->isCategoryActive($secondLevelSubcategory )): ?> active<?php endif; ?>"> <a href="<?php echo $helper->getCategoryUrl($secondLevelSubcategory ) ?>"><?php echo $this->escapeHtml(trim($secondLevelSubcategory ->getName(), '- ')) ?></a> </li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> <script type="text/javascript">decorateList('leftnav-tree-<?php echo $category->getId() ?>', 'recursive')</script> <?php endif; ?> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> <script type="text/javascript">decorateList('leftnav-tree-<?php echo $category->getId() ?>', 'recursive')</script> <?php endif; ?> <?php //endif; ?> </li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> <script type="text/javascript">decorateList('leftnav-tree', 'recursive')</script> <?php endif; ?> </div>

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  • Any updates on this? Does it work for you? Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 11:54
  • Hi sorry I haven't been able to try it out i will next week and I'll let you know! Thank you! Commented Jun 16, 2017 at 23:34
  • I am going to test by Friday and let you know. Thank you!! Commented Jul 5, 2017 at 18:08

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It does not work, because description and meta_keywords aren't part of the category-tree collection.

Load order:

  1. Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation::getStoreCategories()
  2. Mage_Catalog_Helper_Category::getStoreCategories($sorted=false, $asCollection=false, $toLoad=true)
  3. Mage_Catalog_Model_Category::getCategories($parent, $recursionLevel, $sorted, $asCollection, $toLoad);
  4. Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category::getCategories($parent, $recursionLevel, $sorted, $asCollection, $toLoad);
  5. Varien_Data_Tree_Dbp::loadNode($parent)

At step 4 $tree->addCollectionData(null, $sorted, $parent, $toLoad, true); is called, where the first parameter is a collection ... see:

// Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category_Tree public function addCollectionData($collection = null, $sorted = false, $exclude = array(), $toLoad = true, $onlyActive = false) { if (is_null($collection)) { $collection = $this->getCollection($sorted); } else { $this->setCollection($collection); }

If you want additional attributes loaded, you have to set your own collection.

I think the easiest way is to create a extension, with a helper method, that do this:

app/code/local/My/Module/Helper/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <My_Module> <version>1.0.0</version> </My_Module> </modules> <global> <helpers> <my_module> <class>My_Module_Helper</class> </my_module> </helpers> </global> </config>

app/code/local/My/Module/Helper/Data.php

public function getStoreCategories() { $parent = Mage::app()->getStore()->getRootCategoryId(); $recursionLevel = max(0, (int) Mage::app()->getStore()->getConfig('catalog/navigation/max_depth')); $tree = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/category_tree'); /* @var $tree Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category_Tree */ $nodes = $tree->loadNode($parent) ->loadChildren($recursionLevel) ->getChildren(); $collection = $tree->getCollection() ->addAttributeToSelect('description') ->addAttributeToSelect('meta_keywords'); $tree->addCollectionData($collection, false, $parent); return $nodes; }

in your template file

Change:

<?php $categories = $this->getStoreCategories() ?>

To:

<?php $categories = $this->helper('my_module')->getStoreCategories()) ?>
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  • @monjexpress please accept if solved. :) Commented Jan 11, 2018 at 19:29

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