Magento - Custom Category Listing Block

Grab a copy of the code in this video:
http://www.devinrolsen.com/magento-custom-category-listing-block/


Here I wanted to show you how to build a custom magento category listing block that you can use on your own magento store. We will go over each step at getting a category listing of your magneto categories and even a sub category listing.

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Howto & Style

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[devinrayolsen1]

smurkas, you are correct, if you would like to change line 12 to : $subCats = $category->getChildren(); that is perfectly fine.

[AaronDLambert]

My god, you really have to write all of this code just to display categories on your page!? I started to write my own ecommerce solution in PHP and went to Magento because I didn't have the time to finish it all, but if I have to write code for everything, I might as well just finish my software, insanity!!

[LazyRecon]

thank's man ur great!!! i'm new in magento and i spend 2 day trying it!!!

[wendy282828]

Thanks for the tutorial.May How to set the Magento category sort in alphabetical order.

[callsuman]

Can we not use recursive function to load subcategories?

[crapshaw]

@crapshaw figured this out. Just changed the list item structure to include:

echo $category->getURL();

and

echo $subCategory->getUrl();

thanks again :)