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Posted by: akis papadopoulos
Date: December 22, 2011 06:30AM

Hello all
I have a little query problem.
I am trying to get category path from a product in virtuemart
I have 4 tables jos_vm_product, jos_vm_product_xref, jos_vm_category and jos_vm_category_xref
I have the product_id which is in jos_vm_product . When I have the product_id we link it in jos_vm_product_xref with category_id
And then having product_id we get the name from jos_vm_category.
The problem is that I need the full path which is inside jos_vm_category_xref.
To get the full path we have to know the category_id from product_id(which I have it)and then we check if the category_id = category_child_id then it is child and we need to get and the category_parent_id until category_parent_id=0 which means that it is the root.

Example:
we have the category_id=3 from product_id=1
The name from category_id=3 (jos_vm_category) is sub sub category
in jos_vm_category_xref we have category_child_id=3 and parent_id =2
so we check below that category_child_id=2 and parent_id=1
and below category_child=1 and parent_id=0 so we are in root category now.
and for all those we have our root and the output is
sub sub category(name from child_parent_id=3) / sub category (name from parent_child_id=2) / category (name from parent_child_id=1) / root (parent_id =0)

I hope someone understands what I need and have a clue how to do it .
Thanks in advance.

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