Custom link in 3th level category menu

Question

I would like to have some custom links in the dropdown menu, but then on the thirth level.

I now have like:

RootCategory
-> Category1 (eg Baby)
   -> Gender (eg Boy or Girl)
      -> Kind of clothing (eg trousers, shirts ...)

But i want to add an extra 2nd level category "Brands". On which i want to display some featured brands. I also have de Amasty Improved navigation extension, so my brandpages have the following url: www.website.com/brand.html

I would like to have this setup:

RootCategory
-> Category1 (eg Baby)
   -> Gender (eg Boy or Girl)
      -> Kind of clothing (eg trousers, shirts ...)
   -> Brands
      -> Featured Brand 1
      -> Featured Brand 2

But now they get the url: www.website.com/Category1/Brands/brands.html

My Question: How could i change the link in the navigation to the short url: www.website.com/brand.html

I am using Magento 1.8.1 CE

Answer 1

Go into App/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Url.php and copy the contents of that file. Now go into App/code/local/Catalog/Model/Url.php (create the path if it doesn't exist) and paste the content previously copied.

Now go to function getCategoryRequestPath (around line 700) and inside it comment out the following lines:

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

Reindex and it should work.