Magento 1.8 – How to Get Store Category URL

categorygeturl

how can I get the store category url?

I know I can get the store direct url like this,

<a href="{{store direct_url="contacts"}}">Contact Us</a>

But what about the store's categories?

The categories I have in my store, such as 'Wines', 'Food', etc, so if I do this,

{{store direct_url="wines"}} // returns http://mystore/wine

I will get a 404 error page. Because the url should be like this,

http://mystore/wine.html

Any idea?

Best Answer

If you know the id of the category you get the url using widgets:

{{widget type="catalog/category_widget_link" template="catalog/category/widget/link/link_inline.phtml" id_path="category/8"}}

the value of template can be:

catalog/category/widget/link/link_block.phtml
catalog/category/widget/link/link_inline.phtml

Related Solutions

Magento 1.8 – How to Show Featured Products from a Specific Category

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12288000/158325

Found a working solution using Alan Storm's advice.

/template/custom/featured-product.phtml

<?php
$_categoryId = $this->getCategoryId();

$_productCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_categoryId)
    ->getProductCollection()
    ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
    ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1)
    ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4)
    ->setOrder('price', 'ASC');
?>

<div class="featured-product">
    <h2><?php echo $this->__( $this->getLabel() ); ?></h2>

    <?php foreach ($_productCollection as $_product): ?>
        <div class="item">
            <a class="product-image" href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>">
                <img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(200); ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>" />
            </a>

            <a class="product-name" href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?></a>

            <?php echo $this->getPriceHtml($_product, true) ?>
        </div>

        <?php
        // Note: Exit after first product.
        break;
        ?>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</div>

In short, the collection is manually generated rather than receiving a collection (as my initial attempt did):

<?php $_productCollection = $this->getLoadedProductCollection() ?>
<?php $_collectionSize = $_productCollection->getSize(); ?>

Using in a CMS Page:

{{block type="core/template" category_id="13" label="Product of the Month" template="custom/featured-product.phtml" }}

Using in a template:

/layout/local.xml

<default>
    <reference name="footer">
        <block type="core/template" name="custom.featuredProduct" as="featured_product" template="custom/featured-product.phtml">
            <action method="setData"><key>category_id</key><value>13</value></action>
            <action method="setData"><key>label</key><value>Product of the Month</value></action>
        </block>
    </reference>
</default>

/template/page/html/footer.phtml

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('featured_product') ?>

Helpful resources:

How to get a product collection:

Using magic getters/setters:

Magento – Magento 2 – Retrieve categories

You can retrieve category collection and its products of particular main category as below,

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$categoryCollection = $objectManager->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\Category');
$category = $categoryCollection->load($rootcat_id);

here you will get main category info then further you can load other sub categories and also product information resided in those categories too.

I hope this helps!