Access Sub-category without Parent Category

Question

We have following category and sub-category in our store.

Category: http://yoursite.com/category.html

Sub-category: http://yoursite.com/category/sub-category.html

Is it possible to access sub-category listing page using below URL

Sub-category: http://yoursite.com/sub-category.html

Case 1 : Access sub-category listing page, even if its main category id disabled

Case 2: Access sub-category listing page without using main category in URL

Also if my product is assigned to any sub-category and set the visibility to Catalog, will it appear on sub-category listing page when its category id disabled ?

How can I achieve this ?

Thanks

Answer 1

In Admin:

Admin -> System -> Config -> Catalog -> Search Engine Optimizations -> Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs (set to NO)

Programmatically:

Open the class Mage_Catalog_Model_Url and comment the below line

//if (null === $parentPath) {
//    $parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category);
//}
//elseif ($parentPath == '/') {
    $parentPath = '';
//}

under function getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath)

You can always create a local of your file, just in order to avoid over riding the core files

Answer 2

we made this extension to do it

https://github.com/seansan/snh_settings_CategoryParentUrl

Up+1 if you like it

Answer 3

i can recommend you to try below default function

Remove parent category path from url and change it from

http://mysite.com/category/sub-category.html to http://mysite.com/sub-category.html

USAGE :

Go to the Magento Admin Panel -> System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Seo Options

Select yes or no from "Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs"

Refresh category url index

Option YES => http://mysite.com/category/sub-category.html

Option NO => http://mysite.com/sub-category.html

Edit

    <global>
        <models>
             <catalog>
                <rewrite>
                    <product_url>YourNamespace_Catalog_Model_Product_Url</product_url>
                </rewrite>
            </catalog>
        </models>
   </global>

you can try to rewrite url for category. hope this could be work for you. i am not 100% sure about this modle url rewrite in magento1.7

Hope this will sure help you.

Answer 4

To remove parent category path from child category url
Rewrite class Mage_Catalog_Model_Url
override method public function getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath) like below

public function getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath)
{
    $storeId = $category->getStoreId();
    $idPath = $this->generatePath('id', null, $category);
    $suffix = $this->getCategoryUrlSuffix($storeId);

    if (isset($this->_rewrites[$idPath])) {
        $this->_rewrite = $this->_rewrites[$idPath];
        $existingRequestPath = $this->_rewrites[$idPath]->getRequestPath();
    }

    if ($category->getUrlKey() == '') {
        $urlKey = $this->getCategoryModel()->formatUrlKey($category->getName());
    } else {
        $urlKey = $this->getCategoryModel()->formatUrlKey($category->getUrlKey());
    }

    $categoryUrlSuffix = $this->getCategoryUrlSuffix($category->getStoreId());
    // Code commented to remove parent category path from child category path
    //if (null === $parentPath) {
    //$parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category);
    //}
    //elseif ($parentPath == '/') {
    $parentPath = '';
    //}
    $parentPath = Mage::helper('catalog/category')->getCategoryUrlPath($parentPath,
        true, $category->getStoreId());

    $requestPath = $parentPath . $urlKey . $categoryUrlSuffix;
    if (isset($existingRequestPath) && $existingRequestPath == $requestPath . $suffix) {
        return $existingRequestPath;
    }

    if ($this->_deleteOldTargetPath($requestPath, $idPath, $storeId)) {
        return $requestPath;
    }

    return $this->getUnusedPath($category->getStoreId(), $requestPath,
        $this->generatePath('id', null, $category)
    );
}

Modified below code

if (null === $parentPath) {
    $parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category);
} elseif ($parentPath == '/') {
    $parentPath = '';
}

to

//if (null === $parentPath) {
//    $parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category);
//} elseif ($parentPath == '/') {
    $parentPath = '';
//}