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Products from collection with multiple categories

I have a page that is displaying the products for each category using the following code:

<?php
  perch_collection('Products', [
    'category' => 'product-sector/'.perch_get('cat'),
    'template' => 'collections/product_sector.html',
  ]);
?>

On the template 'product_sector.html', I am trying to pull in the current category title:

<h2><perch:categories id="product_sector" label="Product Sector"><perch:category id="catTitle" /></perch:categories></h2>

The issue I have is products can have multiple categories, so on the page I am getting all categories associated with the first item listed in the <h2> e.g. Cat A, Cat C etc

Can someone point me in the right direction to just pull in the current category?
Andy Knight

Andy Knight 1 points

  • 4 years ago
Robert Ketter

Robert Ketter 103 points

4 years ago

Andy, It seems like I remember this kind of filter has something to do with catDepth, just something to research while waiting for another reply.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

By current, do you mean the one you have the slug for as perch_get('cat') ?
Andy Knight

Andy Knight 1 points

4 years ago

Hi Drew,

Yes, exactly that.
Andy Knight

Andy Knight 1 points

4 years ago

Robert Ketter said:

Andy, It seems like I remember this kind of filter has something to do with catDepth, just something to research while waiting for another reply.

Hi Robert, Thanks for the info - I have been looking in to this as well but I haven't got a working solution as yet.
Andy Knight

Andy Knight 1 points

4 years ago

Drew McLellan said:

By current, do you mean the one you have the slug for as perch_get('cat') ?

Hi Drew,

Did you have a solution at all?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Yes, you can use perch_category(perch_get('cat')) to get details of that specific category.
Andy Knight

Andy Knight 1 points

4 years ago

Drew McLellan said:

Yes, you can use perch_category(perch_get('cat')) to get details of that specific category.

Sorry Drew, Accidentally pressed 'mark as solution' instead of quote.

Im not sure how to implement this perch_category(perch_get('cat')) in the code I posted?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

If you want to do it in a template instead, you can pass the slug you have into the template and then compare it with a perch:if tag within the perch:categories tags.
Andy Knight

Andy Knight 1 points

4 years ago

Drew McLellan said:

If you want to do it in a template instead, you can pass the slug you have into the template and then compare it with a perch:if tag within the perch:categories tags.

Hi Drew,

Thanks for the info. For others, here is what i did to get this working:

On the page:

<?php PerchSystem::set_var('current_category', perch_get('cat')); ?>

In the template:

<perch:categories id="product_sector" label="Product Sector">
              <perch:if id="catSlug" match="eq" value="{current_category}">
              <h2><perch:category id="catTitle" /></h2>
              </perch:if>
              </perch:categories>