I have created a new page template here:
/template/page/category.phtml
and copied inside the content of 1column.phtml.
What I want to accomplish is to get the category data variable in this new template.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
<html>
<head>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('head') ?>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Instead of getting the category content through the function below, I want to get it without this function-->
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('content') ?>
</body>
</html>
you need to load category on your template. Either by factory method(as shown here) or in your block instantiation( {{block }} or xml block ). I hope this code snippet will help.
$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
$_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(CATEGORYID);// get your category here.
$_imgHtml = '';
if ($_imgUrl = $_category->getImageUrl()) {
$_imgHtml = '<p class="category-image"><img src="'.$_imgUrl.'" alt="'.$this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()).'" title="'.$this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()).'" /></p>';
$_imgHtml = $_helper->categoryAttribute($_category, $_imgHtml, 'image');
echo $_imgHtml;
}
