cat_is_ancestor_of

I think I am missing the way I get the $catid. So here it is:

$catid = get_query_var(‘cat’);
if(is_category(’11’) || cat_is_ancestor_of(’11’, $catid))

Again, what am I doing wrong?

I adjusted my code to the following:

$cat = get_query_var(‘cat’);
$args = array(
‘include’ => $cat,
‘hide_empty’ => 0
);
$categories = get_categories($args);
if( ($cat == 11) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == 11) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == 28) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == 27) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == 26) ){

The downfall to this, is that it only deals with direct childs. So if you have 2 levels of categories, then you will have to manually add category_parent parameters. Is there a way to check if a category is a sub-category of a category that is higher up the chain? Maybe using the cat_is_ancestor_of function? I couldn’t get it to work…

This works for me:

if ( cat_is_ancestor_of(6,20) ) {
echo '<p>Category 6 is an ancestor of category 20 </p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Category 6 is NOT an ancestor of category 20 </p>';
}

I guess my problem is determining the category id of the category that the user is currently viewing.

How would I adjust the cat_is_ancestor_of parameters to include the ID of the category the user is current viewing?

thanks in advance.

In a category template?

$catid = get_query_var(‘cat’);

::bows::
Thanks!