Joomla, how to display category name in module latest

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>