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Shop Categories

I have my categories set up on Perch Admin. The set is named 'shop' and there are 5 categories underneath. I've applied these categories to my various products. However when I click on any of the category links on the shop listings page; all products display regardless. What am I doing wrong?

On my shop listing page I have the following; (note/question; is perch_categories still supported? when I place perch_shop_categories here, it breaks the listings page)

       <?php perch_categories([
                'template' => 'category.html',
                'category' => 'shop/'.perch_get('category'),
          ]
            ); ?>

here is the category.html template (stored within /templates/categories)

<perch:before><ul class="catlist"></perch:before>
<li class="cat-list" style="margin-left: <perch:category id="catDepth" type="hidden" />0px;">
    <a class="cat-link" href="index.php?cat=<perch:category id="categorySlug" />"><perch:shop id="categoryTitle" />
    <h4><perch:category id="catTitle" type="smarttext" label="Title" required="true" /></h4>
    <perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" for="catTitle" suppress="true" />
    <perch:category id="desc" type="textarea" label="Description" editor="markitup" markdown="true" size="s" />
</a></li>
<perch:after></ul></perch:after>

and here is where my categories are identified on the product.html template

<perch:categories id="shop" set="shop" label="Category">
    <perch:category id="categorySlug" />
</perch:categories>
Cormac Kerrigan

Cormac Kerrigan 0 points

  • 2 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

2 years ago

When you call perch_products() are you passing in the selected category from the URL?
Cormac Kerrigan

Cormac Kerrigan 0 points

2 years ago

This what I currently have for perch_shop_products. If I passed the category.html template through this, nothing will get displayed.

  <?php perch_shop_products([
                'template' => 'products/list.html',
                'count' => 10,
                'sort-type' => numeric,
          ]); ?>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

2 years ago

If you want to filter by category, you'll need to set the category option.
Cormac Kerrigan

Cormac Kerrigan 0 points

2 years ago

Drew McLellan said:

If you want to filter by category, you'll need to set the category option

I'm sorry but I don't follow what you mean here... where do I set the 'category' option? can you provide an example?
Hussein Al Hammad

Hussein Al Hammad 105 points
Registered Developer

2 years ago

Hello Cormac,

To filter by the category tops in the category set products:

perch_shop_products([
'category' => 'products/tops',
]);

To filter by the category tops/polos in the category set products:

perch_shop_products([
'category' => 'products/tops/polos',
]);

To learn more about Category Filtering: https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/categories/filtering/