Get parent ids

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has any code for 2.3 that will get me a list of parent id's from a category id?

I have a hard coded menu with categories, and want to check to see if any of the selected category's children are active, if so, change the class of the menu.

I have it so it's highlighted if you're on the top parent category, but any below it I presume I need to go up to find the parent and check that.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

You can do something like this in the catalogcontroller.   I think when you hit the top the Parent Cat Id=0 and you may need to play around with the condition of the loop whether you want the top or not/etc.  You can then update your catalog model to include this list of category id's.  This is probably the cleanest way, there maybe a quick and dirty making some calls directly from the view.

private List<int> GetParents(int categoryId)
        {
            List<int> categories = new List<int>();
            Category cat = _categoryService.GetCategoryById(categoryId);
            while (cat!=null &&  cat.ParentCategoryId!=null && cat.ParentCategoryId!=0 )
            {
                categories.Add(cat.ParentCategoryId);
                cat = _categoryService.GetCategoryById(cat.ParentCategoryId);
            }

            return categories;
        }

inspired wrote:

use jquery to find the previous active id and then use that id to highlight the parent id, something like this

var activeId = $('.active').attr('id')

$('.active ').css('background-image', 'url(../active-image.png)');

$('.active a').css('color', 'Red!Important');