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I am trying to get a custom attribute value within my phtml file but struggling to get this to work? getData() & getCustomAttribute() doesn't seem to work. I believe this is because I am using the MagentoCatalogBlockNavigation class to loop through my categories?

Can anyone advise how I can get my custom attribute value within my loop in my product-categories.phtml?

default.xml within my theme

<block class="MagentoCatalogBlockNavigation" name="product.categories" template="Magento_Theme::html/product-categories.phtml"></block>

product-categories.phtml

<?php

if (!$block->getCategory()) {

    return;

}

$_categories = $block->getCategory()->getChildrenCategories();

$_count = is_array($_categories) ? count($_categories) : $_categories->count();

if ($_count) {

    ?>

    <ul class="list-quicklinks row med-gutter">

        <?php 

        foreach ($_categories as $_category) {

            if ($_category->getIsActive()) {

                ?>

                <li>

                    <a href="<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $block->getCategoryUrl($_category) ?>" title="<?php echo $block->escapeHtml($_category->getName()) ?>"><?php echo $block->escapeHtml($_category->getName()) ?></a>

                    <?php

                    //$short_description = $_category->getData('short_category_description');

                    //$short_description = $_category->getCustomAttribute('short_category_description');

                    //$short_description = $this->helper('MagentoCatalogHelperOutput')->categoryAttribute($_category, '', 'short_category_description');

                    ?>

                    <p><?php // echo $short_description; ?></p> 

                </li>

                <?php 

            }

        }

        ?>

    </ul>

    <?php

}

?>

UPDATE:

namespace AutosmartCategoryAttributesModel;



class Category extends MagentoCatalogModelCategory

{

    public function getShortCategoryDescription()

    {            

        //return "working";  

        return $this->_getAttribute('category_short_description');

    }

}

I've created a modal with custom function getShortCategoryDescription() which I can call by $_category->getShortCategoryDescription() however I am unsure how to get this to return my short description attribute. The above code gives me an error:

1 exception(s):

Exception #0 (MagentoFrameworkExceptionLocalizedException): Invalid method ModuleCategoryAttributesModelCategoryInterceptor::_getAttribute

We can get the custom attribute value directly calling the name by <?php echo $_category->getShortCategoryDescription(); ?>

Still you have any doubts please check the below link
http://www.dckap.com/blog/display-custom-attribute-value-product-viewlist-page-magento-2/

In your custom template try this to get the custom attribute value.

 $block->getCategory()->getChildrenCategories()->getAttribute([your_custom_attribute_code_name]);

Hope this will help you.