Not quite sure if it is what you want?

{{ isset($this->category->parent_id)?  $categories[$product->category->parent_id] : '' }} / {{ $product->category->name }}

duh - yeah exactly, new i was being stupid.

One thing thats now puzzling me is this An example {{ $product->category->parent_id }} = 4

my categories are so #1 1 "Pergolenxy"
#2 2 "Zelten"
#3 3 "Markisen"
#4 4 "Markilux" #5 5 "Side Blinds"

Yet for some reason when i do this $categories[$product->category->parent_id]['name']

I get "Side Blinds" instead of "Markilux", which seems a bit bizarre

• i'm obviously grabbing the array index(starts at 0) and not the object id

Any suggestions ?