[Rob472]

I'm very new to pligg and I was looking through the class files trying to find what method or object I could use to get the current category of a story page so I can target my ads better. Well thats a lot of code to read through so I'm asking for assistance here. For example, here is what I would like to do

switch ($object->category)
{
      case "cat1":
            //show related ad
      break;

      case "cat2":
            //show related ad
      break;
}

so what I am asking is how can I get the category so I can compare it?

[cekirge]

The following should give you what you are looking for.
$request_category

[Rob472]

thanks for the reply but I figured it out a few days ago after posting this. I'm using $link->category to get the category id number.