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Moody
Moody

Reputation: 235

Magento : How to get full product URL using category

I am trying to find a solution for making sure that Magento always shows the complete URL of every product including the category path. I want the complete url to also be there in search results also. For this i have put every product in only one category.

Can this be done by Url Rewrite custom through magento? Is 301 redirect using .htaccess, for /product.html to category/subcategory/product.html a good idea?

Thanks Moody

Upvotes: 0

Views: 14014

Answers (1)

baoutch
baoutch

Reputation: 1704

What we do to get full category in products url is using a helper that'll try to get you a product URL with the category. You could also rewrite the product method but its kind of a pain whenever another module rewrites some product stuff, this is why we use the helper approach.

Here's our method:

public static function getFullUrl (Mage_Catalog_Model_Product $product , 
        Mage_Catalog_Model_Category $category = null , 
        $mustBeIncludedInNavigation = true ){

    // Try to find url matching provided category
    if( $category != null){
        // Category is no match then we'll try to find some other category later
        if( !in_array($product->getId() , $category->getProductCollection()->getAllIds() ) 
                ||  !self::isCategoryAcceptable($category , $mustBeIncludedInNavigation )){
            $category = null;
        }
    }
    if ($category == null) {
        if( is_null($product->getCategoryIds() )){
            return $product->getProductUrl();
        }
        $catCount = 0;
        $productCategories = $product->getCategoryIds();
        // Go through all product's categories
        while( $catCount < count($productCategories) && $category == null ) {
            $tmpCategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($productCategories[$catCount]);
            // See if category fits (active, url key, included in menu)
            if ( !self::isCategoryAcceptable($tmpCategory , $mustBeIncludedInNavigation ) ) {
                $catCount++;
            }else{
                $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($productCategories[$catCount]);
            }
        }
    }
    $url = (!is_null( $product->getUrlPath($category))) ?  Mage::getBaseUrl() . $product->getUrlPath($category) : $product->getProductUrl();
    return $url;
}

/**
 * Checks if a category matches criteria: active && url_key not null && included in menu if it has to
 */
protected static function isCategoryAcceptable(Mage_Catalog_Model_Category $category = null, $mustBeIncludedInNavigation = true){
    if( !$category->getIsActive() || is_null( $category->getUrlKey() )
        || ( $mustBeIncludedInNavigation && !$category->getIncludeInMenu()) ){
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

If a category is specified it tries to get a url relative to this one.

If no category is specified or couldn't find a url with provided one, the method tries to get the product URL relative to the first category that the product is attached to, and checks if it's acceptable (active, with a url key and matching navigation criteria).

Finally if it falls back to original $product->getProductUrl() Magento method.

You'll have to use it in templates (categories, cart products, recently viewed etc....) with this call : 

echo $this->helper('yourcompany/yourmodule')::getFullProductUrl($_product);

Edit:

I took Zachary's remarks into account and tweaked it up a little by adding some checks and options. Hope it's cool now. Examples :

echo $this->helper('yourcompany/yourmodule')::getFullProductUrl($_product, $aCategory);

will try to find a product url in $aCategory then fall back to other category urls and finally product base url

echo $this->helper('yourcompany/yourmodule')::getFullProductUrl($_product, someCategory, false);

will also consider categories that are not included in navigation.

Upvotes: 4

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