Wordpress Category Link

[droplister]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a post's category link from outside the loop.

I want to call the category from my header file for bread crumb navigation. I can call the title just fine, but all the solutions I've tried result in Object #[number] rather than the link. Is that because I'm treating the call wrong or something? Anyone know? It seems to me there should be a function for this already, but I can't locate it

 

[nachoninja]

is_category
in_category

????

 

[droplister]

I guess in_category will have to do, but its an unfortunately long if else ordeal.

Thanks.

 

[nachoninja]

same as what I used, you'd think there's another way - but I couldn't find it....

 

[droplister]

I've just added it now, it works just fine. I've run into other things like this on a different site where the solutions were real messy calls on the db.

 

[bobsoap]

Have you tried this -

global $post;
$base = get_bloginfo('url');
$category = get_the_category($post->ID); 

echo '<a href="<?php echo $base.$category[0]->category_nicename; ?>"><?php echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?></a>';