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Hi All

Im using this

$category = perch_shop_cart([
    'skip-template'=> true,
    'return-html'=> false,
    'raw' => true,
],true);
print_r($category);

to get a array of the cart contents

but i cant see the product category in there

how can i get the category to display in the array

Thanks

Ant
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

What's the objective? Are you trying to get the categories of all the products in the cart?
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

Yes

I'm then using it to pass a variable into a template

Which will then display diffrent cart_properties depending on the items in the cart
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Right - the cart doesn't carry the full set of information about the products, just a reference to them. The cart has it's own problems to deal with :)

Do you see the product slugs or IDs in there?
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

Yes

At the moment I have used the SKU as part of the category is in the SKU

HCKAYA001

I then removed the first 2 and last 3 letters

And use that
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Ok, if you have the product IDs, you'll need to then look up each product in turn to get the categories (using perch_shop_product())

There's not a more straightforward way, but it should be perfectly possible.
Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

5 years ago

Ahhh I see

Thanks