Adding a 'Prices From' to product price when combinations exist

[nhelliwell]

Hello,

 

So; I was thinking of adding a piece of text to the prices displayed when combinations exist for the product.  

In the products.tpl file, you can (crudely) detect this as there is a $groups variable assigned (ignoring for a moment that the combo may or may not affect the price).

 

However, this value does not appear to be assigned when the product-list.tpl is used, i.e.  home featured, all list pages, etc, etc.

 

After hunting around for a while, I am now uncontrollably spinning into the core files, and this seems much harder than I thought it would be.  

 

Before I add an override to the Category.php (which is where I think I need to do this), and add an extra database call, does anyone know whether there is already something assigned somewhere that I can use/check/have missed.

 

Thanks team.