Display a user's product category

Hello,

I was wondering how I would go about displaying the product category a user has a product from.

A little background: The way we're using aMember is to create new products each year, so that all members have to renew around the same time. eg. "Professional 2013" will expire at the end of September and members will have to purchase "Professional 2014" by then. I've created a "Professional" product category to manage the overlap and to avoid having to update protections every year.

Now I would like to be able to display what product category a member "belongs" to. Since product IDs change every year, I'm not sure how to do this. I found Alex's answer to a related question here, but I don't have the knowledge to make use of it.

Is there a way to do this without having to manually update the product IDs each year?

Thanks,
Scott

Caesar,

We're looking to display the product category as part of the profiles in our members directory. We're using the members directory module, for which I've created a custom template that currently displays the membership level, based on the product ID of the active products for each user:

PHP:

 
<?php
     
      $membership = $user->getActiveProductIds();
                     
      foreach($membership as $k=>$v):
      if ($v == 79 || $v == 84) echo 'Professional Membership';
      if ($v == 80 || $v == 85) echo 'Professional Membership + Premier Listing';
      if ($v == 81 || $v == 86) echo 'Associate Membership';
      if ($v == 76 || $v == 87) echo 'Pre-Professional Membership';
      if ($v == 83) echo 'Honorary Membership';
     
      endforeach;
?>


Thanks,
Scott

Perfect. Once again, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks for all of your help Caesar!

Scott