[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Access category of product in users email ## - **[k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile")** - [![k8fisher's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher) Less More - Posts: 45 - Thank you received: 0 - - 15 years 3 weeks ago - 15 years 3 weeks ago [\#26582](#26582) by [k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile") *[Access category of product in users email](/forum/4-how-to/26582-access-category-of-product-in-users-email#26582 "Hi, Im seeing plenty of questions about fields but none mentioning how to pull through the category a product belongs to. How would I reference the category of the products purchased? I tried the tip from Nicholas re typing (below)in an email but it just doesnt seem to give access to the category... Is there anyway to get to the category of a product? Any thoughts very much welcome")* was created by *[k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile")* Hi, Im seeing plenty of questions about fields but none mentioning how to pull through the category a product belongs to. How would I reference the category of the products purchased? I tried the tip from Nicholas re typing (below)in an email but it just doesnt seem to give access to the category... <?php echo nl2br(print_r($data,true)); ?> Is there anyway to get to the category of a product? Any thoughts very much welcome Last edit: 15 years 3 weeks ago by [k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile"). Reason: realised what I really need is the ability to access the category of the product not a custom variable Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzI2NTgyLWFjY2Vzcy1jYXRlZ29yeS1vZi1wcm9kdWN0LWluLXVzZXJzLWVtYWlsP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86308 - Thank you received: 14273 - - 15 years 3 weeks ago [\#26594](#26594) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Access category of product in users email](/forum/4-how-to/26582-access-category-of-product-in-users-email#26594 "Hi, Im seeing plenty of questions about fields but none mentioning how to pull through the category a product belongs to. How would I reference the category of the products purchased? I tried the tip from Nicholas re typing (below)in an email but it just doesnt seem to give access to the category... Is there anyway to get to the category of a product? Any thoughts very much welcome")* There is indeed no easy access to the categories of a product since the categories are not loaded for the email. That means that you first need to make a query to the database to load the categories of each product before being able to display them. That will require PHP knowledge to do that. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzI2NTgyLWFjY2Vzcy1jYXRlZ29yeS1vZi1wcm9kdWN0LWluLXVzZXJzLWVtYWlsP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile")** - [![k8fisher's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher) Less More - Posts: 45 - Thank you received: 0 - - 15 years 3 weeks ago [\#26600](#26600) by [k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile") Replied by *[k8fisher](/forum/user/3652-k8fisher "View k8fisher's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Access category of product in users email](/forum/4-how-to/26582-access-category-of-product-in-users-email#26600 "Hi, Im seeing plenty of questions about fields but none mentioning how to pull through the category a product belongs to. How would I reference the category of the products purchased? I tried the tip from Nicholas re typing (below)in an email but it just doesnt seem to give access to the category... Is there anyway to get to the category of a product? Any thoughts very much welcome")* Thanks for the speedy response, I guess theres a limit to the amount of things you can pull in when creating the email. I just thought I would check in case I was missing something obvious. Much appreciated Kate Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzI2NTgyLWFjY2Vzcy1jYXRlZ29yeS1vZi1wcm9kdWN0LWluLXVzZXJzLWVtYWlsP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. 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