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[micrantha Friend micranthaJoin date: May 2007Posts: 465Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 158 times in 148 posts]

#157947

Hello,
I would very much appreciate if anybody could help me on with this:

In head of index.php I need to get the category id (catid) of the article or blog page which is openend.
When I have this integer I next could load a special template file to add some color rules for this category.

I could for example add this line:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl; ?>/templates/ja_purity/css/category-<? echo $catid; ?>.css"

The output would be a template file category-15 or any number of the actual category.
But how to get it?

As far as I can see there are two situations in which I have to get the catid:
1. page view is category list or category blog
2. page view is article

I hope someone more at home in php on this forum can help me on.

Thank you in advance,
Micrantha

[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

#369067

Dear micrantha,

It is easy to get the the catid if you are in the category view, with the article view it would be more harder, You can try with the below code to get the category id in the category view

<?php if(JRequest::getVar(‘view’, null, ‘default’, ‘cmd’) == ‘category’) { ?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php echo $this->baseurl; ?>/templates/ja_purity/css/category-<? echo JRequest::getVar(‘id’); ?>.css”
<?php } ?>

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