Question

I’ve been driving myself crazy trying to display thumbnail images for a list of sub categories I’m attempting to display in a footer. I’ve tried the solution found here: http://www.douglasradburn.co.uk/getting-category-thumbnail-images-with-magento/ but no luck!

Here is the code I am using at the moment. Everything works fine apart from the img src renders empty:

        <? $artisans = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(9)->getChildrenCategories(); ?>
    <ul class="artists">
    <? $i = 0; foreach($artisans as $artisan):
    ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?= $artisan->getUrl() ?>" title="<?= $artisan->getName() ?>"><img src="<?= $artisan->getThumbnailUrl() ?>" /></a>
        </li>
    <? if(++$i > 7) break; endforeach; ?>
    </ul>

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

SOLUTION (thanks Lucasmus!):

    <? $artisans = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(9)->getChildrenCategories(); ?>
    <ul class="artists">
    <? $i = 0; foreach($artisans as $artisan): ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?= $artisan->getUrl() ?>" title="<?= $artisan->getName() ?>"><img src="<?= Mage::getBaseUrl('media').'catalog/category/'.$artisan->load($artisan->getId())->getThumbnail() ?>" width="96" height="96" /></a>
        </li>
    <? if(++$i > 7) break; endforeach; ?>
    </ul>

Answer 1

There is a good chance that there is not enough information loaded from the childcategory. It could help if you added $artisan->load($artisan->getId()); before getting the actual variables from the $artisan.