Retro video games delivered to your door every month!
Click above to get retro games delivered to your door ever month!
udm_cat_path
OuSob Home Page
PrevNext

udm_cat_path

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5 <= 5.0.4)

udm_cat_path -- Get the path to the current category

Description

array udm_cat_path ( resource agent, string category )

Returns an array describing the path in the categories tree from the tree root to the current one, specified by category. agent is the agent identifier returned by a previous call to >udm_alloc_agent().

The returned array consists of pairs. Elements with even index numbers contain the category paths, odd elements contain the corresponding category names.

For example, the call $array=udm_cat_path($agent, '02031D'); may return the following array: 
$array[0] will contain ''
 $array[1] will contain 'Root'
 $array[2] will contain '02'
 $array[3] will contain 'Sport'
 $array[4] will contain '0203'
 $array[5] will contain 'Auto'
 $array[4] will contain '02031D'
 $array[5] will contain 'Ferrari'

Example 1. Specifying path to the current category in the following format: '> Root > Sport > Auto > Ferrari'

&#60;?php
  $cat_path_arr = udm_cat_path($udm_agent, $cat);
  $cat_path = '';
  for ($i=0; $i&#60;count($cat_path_arr); $i+=2) {
    $path = $cat_path_arr[$i];
    $name = $cat_path_arr[$i+1];
    $cat_path .= " &#62; &#60;a href=\"$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]?cat=$path\"&#62;$name&#60;/a&#62; ";
  }
?&#62;

See also udm_cat_list().

PrevHomeNext
udm_cat_listUpudm_check_charset