Low Seg2Cat and category images - file path doesn't resolve

Question

I've been using Low Seg2Cat for ages now on my blog pages to display category information and do category archive pages. I just realised today that the {segment_x_category_image} tag is not working properly. If I view the page source I'm getting this:

{filedir_1}badge-ideas.gif

I know the image is fine because on a single entry page I call it with this:

{categories}{category_image}{/categories}

and it displays correctly.

Is there something wrong with this Seg2Cat tag?

I've updated to latest version of Seg2Cat and it didn't fix the issue.

Answer 1

Low Seg2Cat is meant to be as lightweight as possible. That means narrowing down on DB queries. As it might not be necessary for everyone to use the image tag, that could mean a superfluous query every page load. Instead, use something like Parse File Paths (free) to parse those {filedir_x} vars:

{exp:parse_file_paths}{segment_x_category_image}{/exp:parse_file_paths}

Answer 2

Was trying to avoid having to add another add-on, am already using Surgeree for string stuff so I was able to do this as an alternative:

{exp:surgeree:strip_tags}
    {exp:channel:categories show="{segment_2_category_id}"}{category_image}{/exp:channel:categories}
{/exp:surgeree:strip_tags}

That leaves you with just the image url, if you use it with Stash you can use the trim parameter, e.g. wrap the above with {exp:stash:set name="main_image" parse_tags="yes"} and for your image:

<img src="{exp:stash:get name="main_image" trim="yes"}" alt="{segment_2_category_name}" />

...

Probably makes more sense to use the parse file paths add on. but this will do the trick for me for now.