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Luc
Luc

Reputation: 1825

wordpress - php - Get name and slug from category

I've got this function:

<?php
$categories = []; //array to store all of your category slugs
$category_list_items = get_terms( 'product_cat' );

foreach($category_list_items as $category_list_item){
    if(! empty($category_list_item->slug) ){
        array_push($categories, $category_list_item->slug);
    }
}

foreach ($categories as $category) {
    $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 100, 'product_cat' => $category, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
?>

This is good, it returns the slug of a category for me in a loop. The problem is, now I can't get the category name anymore. I've tried adding another array: '$names = [];' and with that copied the if statement in which I replaced slug with name. But that didn't take. Out all of the solutions that i've tried, I only get returned 'Array' of just the whole list of names. Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2495

Answers (1)

Suman Biswas
Suman Biswas

Reputation: 883

<?php
$categories = array();
$names = array(); 
$category_list_items = get_terms( 'product_cat' );

foreach($category_list_items as $category_list_item){
    if(! empty($category_list_item->slug) ){
        $categories[] = $category_list_item->slug;
        $names[] = $category_list_item->name;
    }
}

foreach ($categories as $key=>$category) {
     echo "Category Name :".$names[$key];
     echo "Category Slug :".$category;
    $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 100, 'product_cat' => $category, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
?>

Upvotes: 0

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