Joomla，如何在模块最新中显示类别名称

Question

I've been trying to display the category name after the contents of the 'Latest' module in Joomla.

I've made the query in phpMyAdmin and it works. But when I try to use this in the php module template page the page stops at the point the php should start.

$db = &JFactory::getDBO(); 
$id = JRequest::getString('id'); 
$db->setQuery("SELECT `title` FROM `#__categories` WHERE `id` = " .$item->catid); 
$category = $db->loadResult();
echo $category;

When I replace $item->catid with a fixed number, it works like it does in phpMyAdmin. Can anyone tell me where I go wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

$item is already having the category title so no need to get it through a db query. You can simply do this in your tmpl file. You can get the category using $item->category_title

<ul class="latestnews<?php echo $moduleclass_sfx; ?>">
<?php foreach ($list as $item) :  ?>
    <li itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
        <a href="<?php echo $item->link; ?>" itemprop="url">
            <span itemprop="name">
                <?php echo $item->title; ?>-
                <b><?php echo $item->category_title; ?></b>
            </span>
        </a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

UPDATE: if you want to display as you asked in comments then you need to do this

<ul class="latestnews<?php echo $moduleclass_sfx; ?>">
<?php foreach ($list as $item) :  ?>
    <li itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
        <a href="<?php echo $item->link; ?>" itemprop="url">
            <span itemprop="name">
                <?php echo $item->title; ?>       
            </span>
        </a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<b><a href="<?php JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=$item->category_title&id=$item->catid"); ?>">Click here for more news on ("<?php echo $item->category_title; ?>")</a></b>
</ul>