Get Category Image to front-end from custom category attribute created through attribute manager

Question

I have just created a custom attribute for categories through Attribute Manager, with attribute code category_view_img.

Now I can only put one image into a category, and use this image for both the banner and category-view-image on the home page. I want to use this custom attribute image on the home page as category view image. How can I get this image on front-end?

I am new to Magento and I don't have ideas how to do this, please assist. I am using Magento 1.9.2.3.

Answer 1

After spinning my head regularly throughout all over Internet, I finally found a solution for this issue:

var $image= trim(Mage::getBaseUrl('media').'catalog/category/'.$_category->getData('category_view_img'));

<img src="<?php echo $image;?>"/>

I hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

Use below code:

<?php $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load('category-id'); ?>
<img src="<?php echo $category->getCategoryViewImg(); ?> />