Magento - list sub-categories of a specific parent category as links

Question

I am a beginner to php and am stuck on trying to call out sub-categories of just one parent category as links

I got to this and it’s bringing up the getName but the getUrl() isn’t returning any URL at all....

<?php
      $children = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCategories(3);
      foreach ($children as $category):
            echo '<li><a href="' . $category->getUrl() . '">' . $category->getName() . '</a></li>';
      endforeach;
?>

The output code is just <li><a href="">name of sub-cat</a></li>

Anybody have any ideas? Please?

Thanks, Kayla

Solution 1

Please try this code I think you did this code but this is very helpful for someone who is searching this code

<?php
    $children = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCategories(3);
    foreach ($children as $category):
        $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category->getId());
        echo '<li><a href="' . $category->getUrl() . '">' . $category->getName() . '</a></li>';
    endforeach;
?>

Solution 2

I don't know why @Dhanapal solution has not worked for me, so I used:

$categories = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load('3')->getChildrenCategories();
foreach ($children as $category):
    $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category->getId());
    echo '<li><a href="' . $category->getUrl() . '">' . $category->getName() . '</a></li>';
endforeach;