customer links within an item record

OK, on the item page I want to add a couple links that go something like this:

For more items from this manufacturer click here
For more items from this category click here

I'm having trouble though generating a link that will pull either the item's vendor or category.

I've tried:
&lt;a href="http://www.mystoresname/<%=getCurrentAttribute("item","category")%&gt;"&gt;&lt;%=getCurrentAttribute('item','category')%&gt; &lt;/a&gt;

and

&lt;a href="http://www.mystoresname.com/s.nl?sc=2&search=&lt;%=getCurrentAttribute("item","vendorname")%&gt;"&gt;&lt;%=getCurrentAttribute('item','vendorname')%&gt; &lt;/a&gt;

I looked in the get attributes section and seen the vendorname and sitecategory and also tried just category. But none of them seem to pull up.