get_category_parents with no end separator

  • Does anyone know how to display the parent category and then sub-category with a separator in between, but not at the end of the line?

    I’m using this:
    <?php echo get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ' / '); ?>

    Which displays: Parent Category / Sub-Category /
    But I want it to display Parent Category / Sub-Category

    I’ve looked all over and can’t find any other code that works.

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  • You could always remove the trailing separator:

    <?php $catstr = get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ' / ');
echo substr($catstr, 0, strlen($catstr) -3 ); ?>
    Thread Starter punkyb9

    (@punkyb9)

    That works, thank you!

    I’m also trying to display the same thing on single pages, but the get_category_parents code doesn’t work there.

    Currently I have:

    <?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $childcat) {
$parentcat = $childcat->category_parent;
echo get_cat_name($parentcat);
}
?>
<?php
$category = get_the_category();
echo '/&nbsp;';
echo $category[0]->cat_name;
echo '&nbsp;/';
?>

    That works except again, I want to get rid of the final slash. And on pages with no parent category it shows the slash before as well. Any idea what I should use instead?

    I believe that your code will only work when there is a single category, with or without a parent. If there is more than one category, the parent names will all be strung together with no spaces between and only the first child will be listed.

    I don’t know what you want to do in those situations. The following should work, but it only prints the first parent it finds.

    <?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $childcat) {
   $parentcat = $childcat->category_parent;
   if ($parentcat) break;  // Save only first parent
}
$sep = '';
$parentname = '';
if ($parentcat) {
   $parentname = get_cat_name($parentcat);
   echo $parentname;
   $sep = '&nbsp;/&nbsp;';
}
foreach (get_the_category() as $category) {
   $cat_name = $category->cat_name;
   if ($cat_name != $parentname) {
      echo $sep;
      echo $cat_name;
   }
   $sep = '&nbsp;/&nbsp;';
}
?>
    Thread Starter punkyb9

    (@punkyb9)

    Good to know. I think this actually works perfectly for what I need to do. Thank you so much for your help!

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