title: Prestashop - create link to the category that a product belongs to
body: <p>I'm fairly new at prestashop. On the home page I am using the "Specials Center" module which just displays a list of products that are on sale. I wanted to show which category the product belongs to. I edited SpecialsCenter.tpl and used this code: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="#"&gt;Category: {$Specials.category}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This correctly displays the corresponding category name for which the specific product belongs to. See image: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/YVY38" rel="nofollow">Product with category</a>.
   The only thing I am having trouble with is creating a link to that category. Should be fairly simple but Prestashop forums seem so vacant. All questions. No answers. What is the variable to use to link to the category page?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help. </p>
  
  <p>Having done a little more research...this is where I am now...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="{$link-&gt;getCategoryLink({$Specials.id_category}, {$Specials.category})}"&gt;Category: {$Specials.category}&lt;/a&gt;
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  <p>So this outputs this link: mysiteurl/0-laptops - this is partly correct, except the <strong>category ID</strong> is wrong. The id for the category laptops is 4. It should be this: mysiteurl/<strong>4</strong>-laptops. So the first smarty tag <code>{$Specials.id_category}</code> is incorrect. I need to know how to draw the category ID using a variable of some kind. So it should be something like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="{$link-&gt;getCategoryLink('category-id', {$Specials.category})}"&gt;Category: {$Specials.category}&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks again!!! :)</p>