Issue

i want to get immediate parent category from a current product, i have refereed

but it doesn't help me to find immediate parent category.

please help me

Thank You in Advance

Solution

If you have the product as an object, for this example we say your product object is $product. The following should work:

$product->getCategory()->getParentCategory();

That should return the parent category as an object of Mage_Catalog_Model_Category.

If you don't have the product but say have the product id then the following should be enough to get the product.

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product_id);

But note that a product could have more than one category assigned to in.

If you have more than one category per product you can use getCategoryCollection() to get all the categories.

foreach ($product->getCategoryCollection() as $category) {
    $parent_category = $category->getParentCategory();
}

Answered By - dmanners

Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (PHPFixing Admin)