I'm in the final stages of setting up my magento 2 store. In the backend I have a process using the API to keep stock information up to date. Sometimes the stock drops to 0 for every item in a category, making it empty. If you go to one of those categories you get:
We can't find products matching the selection.
This makes sense, but I was wondering if there was a may to have magento hide the category altogether if the products in the category have no stock.
This extension hides the empty categories from navigation menu:
From How to hide the categories which has no product from topmenu in Magento2
I already checked this but it hide the parent category as well even the child category have products
The mentioned extensions works only if empty parent categories are set to is_anchor.
Possible fix?
/**
* @inheritDoc
*/
public function execute(Observer $observer)
{
$visibleCategories = [];
/** @var Collection $categoryCollection */
$categoryCollection = $observer->getDataByKey('category_collection');
/** @var Category $category */
foreach ($categoryCollection as $category) {
if ($this->showCategory($category)) {
$categoryId = $category->getId();
$visibleCategories[$categoryId] = $categoryId;
foreach ($category->getParentIds() as $parentId) {
$visibleCategories[$parentId] = $parentId;
}
}
}
foreach ($categoryCollection as $category) {
if (!array_key_exists($category->getId(), $visibleCategories)) {
$categoryCollection->removeItemByKey($category->getId());
}
}
}
/**
* @param Category $category
* @return bool
*/
public function showCategory(Category $category): bool
{
return $category->getProductCollection()->count() > 0;
}
I tried this module, and it worked for me, for the most part. I believe this is the same GitHub repo as noted in the other answers to this question, I assume the author just changed the name, and that's why the other links don't work anymore.
