Magento – In magento, how to hide header and footer in every page for specific category ID

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I would like to know how to hide header and footer for specific category ID.
For example, I have 5 categories: categories are cat1, cat2, cat3, cat4, cat5. I want to hide header and footer in every pages if the category id is equal to cat1. Is it possible to do so?

Best Answer

Simon has a good answer but you can also do this through the admin control panel in Magento using a custom layout update setting on the category editor:

Log in to your admin console and visit Catalog > Manage Categories.
Select the category you want to change in the left column.
Click the "Custom Design" tab in the middle column.
Set "Use Parent Category Settings" to "No"
inside the "Custom Layout Update" box add the following:

<remove name="header" />

<remove name="footer" />

Save the category's changes and go check your website.

This will affect the selected category and all it's child categories by default. If you later want to change another category, you can repeat these steps on that category. You can also re-edit this category and reverse these steps to change the design of that category back again.

disclaimer

I tested this on 1.7 and I have just assumed that the same functionality exists in whichever version you are using.

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Custom URL Rewrites for Categories and Products

You can solve this via admin setting in system->configuration->catalog->search engine optimization.

'Use Categories Path for Product URLs' set to no, and re-index url_rewrites.

This will remove the category from urls.

Magento – Magento : Show 3 different top menus

It's not possible with the default top navigation offered in Magento CE.

You can however write a custom extension that returns a collection of category links depending on the type of page.

class [Namespace]_[Module]_Block_Menu extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
   public function getMenu()
   {
      if (Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier() == 'home')
      {
          $parent_id = [home cat id];
      }
      elseif (Mage::app()->getRequest()->getModuleName() == 'catalog')
      {
          $parent_id = [catalog cat id];
      }
      elseif (Mage::app()->getRequest()->getModuleName() == 'cms')
      {
          $parent_id = [cms cat id];
      }

      $main = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($parent_id);
      $menu = array(
         'name' => $main->getName(),
         'url' => $main->getUrl(),
         'children' => array(),
      );

      $children = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCollection()
         ->addAttributeToFilter('parent_id', $main->getId());
      foreach ($children as $item)
      {
         $menu['children'][] = array('name'=>$item->getName(), 'url'=>$item->getUrl());
      }

      return $menu;
   }
}

Now in a custom PHTML file you can use the menu array to run through all the items and build a menu.

To replace the old menu with your new one add the following to your local.xml

<reference name="header">
   <remove name="top.menu"/>
   <block type="[module]/menu" name="custom_menu" as="topMenu" template="your/custom/template.phtml"/>
</reference>

This is however a very inflexible solutions as when you change a category it might break the menu. I'm not big on promoting paid extensions but you might want to give Menubuilder a try as it provides for a lot of flexibility.

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Related Solutions

Custom URL Rewrites for Categories and Products

Magento – Magento : Show 3 different top menus

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