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The first thing to do, though, is create out the category page, meaning when we click on one of these, we want to go through and actually view this category. We're also going to, in this part, add in the category ancestors as well, so we can sort of trickle up and look at a sort of wider category if we want to.

Okay, so the first thing to do is just go ahead and create a controller for this. We're going to keep this super simple and create a category show controller, and let's head over to that category show controller, and we'll just add in an invoke magic method in here.

And of course, we're going to expect in a category, so let's make sure we pull that in now and go ahead and pull the namespace in. Okay, so we won't do anything here just for yet. What we want to make sure we do first of all is register that route.

So let's go and just grab any of these. It doesn't really matter too much. And let's go ahead and say categories slash, and then we want the category in there. But really importantly, we want this by the slug.

So if we just come over to our categories here, we've got our slug in there. So we want to make sure that we pull that in by the slug. And of course, use the category show controller. Great.

Okay, so if we just come over to one of these now, click on it, we go through to an empty page. So of course, what we want to do is return a view. So let's go ahead and say categories and show.

And let's create that just over here under our resources, views, and categories. And we'll create show.blade.php. And once again, what I'm going to do is just pull over some pre-made markup. Very, very similar structure to the rest of this.

The only difference is we are showing the ancestors just here with the category title. So the ancestors will come before the category title. So we can click back into them. And then we've got the product browser just here.

So effectively, what's going to happen is if we click on new in, we're going to show that this comes from Nike, which then comes from brands. So I think that's helpful in terms of going through that. So actually, let's click on new in under Nike.

So we can show the ancestors just up here. And then the entire product browser that we saw from earlier is going to be just down here. OK. So the category title is pretty straightforward.

We're not actually passing this category through yet. So let's do that now. Category and category. We'll need to think about some eager loading here as well,

particularly when we work with the ancestors. But for the category title, that's pretty straightforward. It's just plucking the title out. And there we go.

We've got new in. OK. Let's focus on these ancestors then. So because we have already looked at this, this should be very familiar.

We're just going to go ahead and iterate over category ancestors. Let's fix that up. And we're just going to call that ancestor. And go ahead and end that for each there.

And then inside of here, we're just going to have an anchor because we want to be able to click through to each of them ancestors. And we're just going to go ahead and extract out the title. Remember, these are all effectively categories, even though they're ancestors.

So they all have a title. So if we just give this a refresh, there we go. We've got Nike and we've got brands. Now, once again, this might make a little bit more sense to be reversed

because brands should technically be the last thing. So we can very easily do that in here by just saying reverse because that just gives us back a Laravel collection. So we can reverse that just so it makes a little bit more sense.

So we've got brands and Nike. Let's go ahead and just add a little bit of styling to this. So let's say text Indigo 500 maybe. And then down here, let's go ahead and create out a span to separate these.

So I'm just going to have a slash in there. And we'll just say font bold text gray. Let's say 300. And we'll say last hidden.

So we'll use CSS here. But again, like we did earlier, when we were iterating through the product details for each variation, you could use that loop variable that we have, which detects if it's the last.

But we'll just use CSS here. I think that makes a bit more sense. So let's just give that a refresh. And there we go.

So we've got Nike and brands. Only thing we need to do now is just link through to this. So we'll just say categories slash and then the category or the ancestor slug. And if we come over, we can now go over to Nike, which of course is under brands.

We go back to brands if there are any products under that. It's entirely up to you what you want to do. So there we go. We've got a category show page, which we can start to build out our product browser in,

which is going to be really important. But before we start to output anything within our product browser, all of this relies on indexing our products into MeliSearch, which is a open source search engine. So let's go ahead and do that in the next episode.