stupid blade question about parent id

posted 10 years ago

i'm sure this is simple, but need help

i have products, with a foreign key of category_id and i have categories, with an id, and some have a parent_id too

In my blade template, this works no problems {{ $product->category->name }}

But how do i go about showing the parent category name ? So i have {{ $product->category->parent_id }} {{ $product->category->name }} But want to convert my parent_id into the parent name, and am confused how to something like - this is obviously wrong @if($product->category->parent_id){{ $categories[$product->category->parent_id} }}@endif / {{ $product->category->name }}

Last updated 2 years ago.

jasteralan

replied 10 years ago

Not quite sure if it is what you want?

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

Last updated 2 years ago.

nousename

replied 10 years ago

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 ?

Last updated 2 years ago.

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