Magento 1.8 – How to Get Product Category URL Key

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How can I get the product category's URL Key?

I can get the category name by $category->getName() but it does not work if I use this $category->getURLKey(),

$categories = $_product->getCategoryCollection()
    ->addAttributeToSelect('name');

foreach($categories as $category) {
    $productCategoryName = $category->getName();
    var_dump($category->getURLKey());
}

Return null

Any ideas?

Best Answer

Try this:

$categories = $_product->getCategoryCollection()
    ->addAttributeToSelect('name')
    ->addUrlRewriteToResult();

Then in your loop try using getUrl() method.

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Magento – Category URL Key redirect to Product Link

You can do this by "URL Rewrite Management"

Catalog->URL Rewrite Management-> Click "Add URL Rewrite" button Then Select "For Category" -> Select a category you want to rewrite to product page.

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Then enter your product url in 4th field "Request Path". here hoodies.html is my product URL: http://localhost.com/magento/hoodies.html and then Select "redirect permanent 301" from the list "Redirect".

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Magento – How to get first item from product collection

To get the first item in a collection simply use the getFirstItem() function on the collection.

Example:

// this gets all the products
$productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/products_collection');
// this line gets just the first product
$firstItem = $productCollection->getFirstItem();

Example 2 (for this particular question):

$_category  = $this->getCurrentCategory();
$_collection = $_category->getProductCollection();
$_product =  $_collection->getFirstItem(); // this will get first item in collection

Some other areas this can be used:

Customers

$customerCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('customer/customer_collection');
$firstCustomer = $customerCollection->getFirstItem();

Orders

$orderCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('sales/order_collection');
$firstOrder = $orderCollection->getFirstItem();

Please Note:

Its not a good idea to load ALL the products/customers/orders for this takes a lot of resources. The preferred way is to limit what you want to load by using the addAttributeToFilter() or addFieldToFilter() functions, see example below:

$productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection')
                           ->addAttributeToFilter('sku', 'book123`);

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