Get parent category tags in template override

Question

I am building a template override for the default featured blog layout. Item tags are displayed with :

<?php if ($info == 0 && $params->get('show_tags', 1) && !empty($this->item->tags->itemTags)) : ?>
  <?php echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.tags', $this->item->tags->itemTags); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

This displays the article tags but is it possible to display the first parent category tags instead?

Answer 1

I did not remember how to get the parent category of article item, but to get the tags for current category you can try to use this code:

$categoryTags = new JHelperTags;
$categoryTags->getItemTags('com_content.category', $item->catid);

<?php echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.tags', $categoryTags->itemTags); ?>