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I have a custom component where I have a category field in a view (backend). That gives me the category id in the front-end.

Now I want to know how I could fetch the category name from this catid. I tried JCategories class but was unsuccessful. When I Googled this question I only get DB Query examples as answers but there must be a better way to get the category name then to do a db query?

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  • Edited my question thanks for the feedback :)
    – TLWebdesignNL
    Commented Sep 29, 2020 at 13:55

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Have you tried JTable?

$category = JTable::getInstance('category');
$category->load($catid);
echo $category->title;

I'm not 100% sure that the above is totally correct. It might be 'categories' rather than 'category'.

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  • Thanks Kiran that worked like a charm. I had already found another way, but that involved getting all categories and looping through them. This way is much cleaner.
    – TLWebdesignNL
    Commented Sep 29, 2020 at 13:57

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