title: Magento Category Thumbnail
body: <p>I am trying to make use of the Magento Category thumbnail, but it is not working. I've followed many tutorials online (eg <a href="http://www.douglasradburn.co.uk/getting-category-thumbnail-images-with-magento/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.douglasradburn.co.uk/getting-category-thumbnail-images-with-magento/</a>),
  and all of them make mention of the function :</p>
  
  <pre><code>$_category-&gt;getThumbnail()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which is supposed to be in the Category model. I'm running Magento 1.6 and I can't find this function anywhere. I've also downloaded 1.5 and 1.7, looked in there and it is nowhere to be found. When I run the code it gives me no errors however, just nothing is output. </p>
  
  <p>Here is my full code:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;ul id="nav"&gt;
   &lt;?php foreach ($this-&gt;getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?&gt;
       &lt;?php echo $_category-&gt;getThumbnail(); ?&gt;  
       &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;drawItem($_category) ?&gt;
   &lt;?php endforeach ?&gt;
   &lt;/ul&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(I am trying to use the thumbnail as a menu item where it is present)</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>Got it working. The secret is you need to re-query for the FULL category data using this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mage::getModel('catalog/category')-&gt;load($_category-&gt;getId())-&gt;getThumbnail()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I followed this tutorial somewhat:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.h-o.nl/blog/using_category_images_in_your_magento_navigation/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.h-o.nl/blog/using_category_images_in_your_magento_navigation/</a></p>
  
  <p>for having category thumbnails in your menu.</p>
  
  <p>thanks
  T</p>