Joomla: Category link inside mod_articles_news

Question

I want to have the link of the article category in the output of mod_articles_news Right now I just have the category name with this:

<?php echo $item->category_title; ?>

Thank you

Answer 1

Eventually it was simpler than I thought, this worked for me:

<?php echo "<a href='index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=".$item->catid."'>" ; ?><?php echo $item->category_title; ?></a>

so after checking the helper.php category ID can be grabbed by this:

$item->catid