Magento – Access Sub-category without Parent Category

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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

Best Answer

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

Related Solutions

Magento – Displaying all sub categories of parent category on sub category page

In your code to get the children categories from current category, which looks like this :

<?php
    $layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
    $_category   = $layer->getCurrentCategory();
    $_categories = $_category->getCollection()->addAttributeToSelect(array('url_key','name','image','all_children','is_anchor','description'))
        ->addAttributeToFilter('is_active', 1)
        ->addIdFilter($_category->getChildren())
        ->setOrder('position', 'ASC')
        ->joinUrlRewrite();
?>

Try with this code instead :

<?php
    $layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
    $_category   = $layer->getCurrentCategory();
    $_categories = $_category->getCollection()->addAttributeToSelect(array('url_key','name','image','all_children','is_anchor','description'))
        ->addAttributeToFilter('is_active', 1)
        ->addIdFilter($_category->getAllChildren(true))
        ->setOrder('position', 'ASC')
        ->joinUrlRewrite();
?>

Difference is, your call to method getChildren returns a comma separated list of IDs, not an array, while the method addIdFilter expects an array to be passed. When you pass true to the method getAllChildren, it will return the list as an array.

Magento 2 Category URL Redirect to Custom Controller

In order to full fill your requirement, can to use Event/Observer

Create a custom module and using catalog_controller_category_init_after event for redirect to your custom url

see Magento2: redirection from Observer

<?php
namespace [Vendor]\[modulename]\Observer;
use \Magento\Framework\Event\Observer;
use \Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;

class [YourClass] implements ObserverInterface {
    protected $_responseFactory;
    protected $_url;

    public function __construct(

        \Magento\Framework\App\ResponseFactory $responseFactory,
        \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface $url
    ) {
        $this->_responseFactory = $responseFactory;
        $this->_url = $url;
    }

    public function execute(Observer $observer) {
             $category = $observer->getEvent()->getCategory();
       if($category->getId()=='Match_CatID'){   
         $controllerAction=$observer->getEvent()->getControllerAction() 
             $RedirectUrl= $this->_url->getUrl('chennaievent\index\index');
            $this->_responseFactory->create()->setRedirect($RedirectUrl)->sendResponse();
           exit();
        }
    }
}

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