How to Display products in disabled categories?

[skinbasis]

Hi all,

 

For a few days now I'm searching for something like this but seems like no one has tried it before. 

What I want to do is to have a category or subcategory disabled, and still access it by url and have the products there. Disabled categories don't show products. 

 

In category.tpl you have the  $category->active query and delete it, but I can not find where the function that prevents products to be displayed in a disabled categories is?

 

Has anyone done this? 

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Hi all,

 

For a few days now I'm searching for something like this but seems like no one has tried it before. 

What I want to do is to have a category or subcategory disabled, and still access it by url and have the products there. Disabled categories don't show products. 

 

In category.tpl you have the  $category->active query and delete it, but I can not find where the function that prevents products to be displayed in a disabled categories is?

 

Has anyone done this? 

 

Thanks a lot!

Edited October 25, 2013 by skinbasis (see edit history)

[NemoPS]

Please forgive my rudeness, but what is the point of having it disabled... if it's still being displayed?

[skinbasis]

There's no problem and you are right but I need the category to be accessible only by url, also it's good for SEO. 

 

I want to make categories based on products brands, like layered module does, but the url that layered module generates are long, seo unfriendly and also they have #. 

 

So, in other words, I need the disable categories with products shown to be access by url.

[NemoPS]

I see, you so you want them to be removed from the breadcrumbs of a product's page? But that is not good for seo

[skinbasis]

Let's say like this:

 

domain/120_shorts ... will trigger the caregory "Men Shorts" that is disabled and will state: "Sorry, this category is unavailable." 

 

But, if you go to category.tpl and remove the "AND $category->active" the page will state "There are no products in this category."

 

So, again, my question is - How to show the products in a disabled category. 

[gonebdg - webindoshop.com]

You may need to modify/override file CategoryController.php in public function assignProductList() and force the inactive category became active

if(!$this->category->active)
    $this->category->active = true;

Also modify/override CategoryController.php in public function init() because the inactive (disabled) category will return header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');

[Joos]

Hey,

 

Im want to achieve the same, but i dont understand what i'm supposed to change

[NemoPS]

As gonebdg said, you must override the category controller. Once you force it to active it should return products

[Joos]

Ok,, and how to i override it? exactly?

[Joos]

Where exactly am i supposed to put what? I found the public function init() in the categorycontroller.php

public function init()
    {
        // Get category ID
        $id_category = (int)Tools::getValue('id_category');
        if (!$id_category || !Validate::isUnsignedId($id_category))
            $this->errors[] = Tools::displayError('Missing category ID');

        // Instantiate category
        $this->category = new Category($id_category, $this->context->language->id);

        parent::init();
        //check if the category is active and return 404 error if is disable.
        if (!$this->category->active)
          
        {
            header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
            header('Status: 404 Not Found');
        }
        //check if category can be accessible by current customer and return 403 if not
        if (!$this->category->checkAccess($this->context->customer->id))
        {
            header('HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden');
            header('Status: 403 Forbidden');
            $this->errors[] = Tools::displayError('You do not have access to this category.');
            $this->customer_access = false;
        }
    }

and i found the product list

$this->productSort(); // Product sort must be called before assignProductList()

		$this->assignScenes();
		$this->assignSubcategories();
		$this->assignProductList();

		$this->context->smarty->assign(array(
			'category' => $this->category,
			'description_short' => Tools::truncateString($this->category->description, 350),
			'products' => (isset($this->cat_products) && $this->cat_products) ? $this->cat_products : null,
			'id_category' => (int)$this->category->id,
			'id_category_parent' => (int)$this->category->id_parent,
			'return_category_name' => Tools::safeOutput($this->category->name),
			'path' => Tools::getPath($this->category->id),
			'add_prod_display' => Configuration::get('PS_ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY_DISPLAY'),
			'categorySize' => Image::getSize(ImageType::getFormatedName('category')),
			'mediumSize' => Image::getSize(ImageType::getFormatedName('medium')),
			'thumbSceneSize' => Image::getSize(ImageType::getFormatedName('m_scene')),
			'homeSize' => Image::getSize(ImageType::getFormatedName('home')),
			'allow_oosp' => (int)Configuration::get('PS_ORDER_OUT_OF_STOCK'),
			'comparator_max_item' => (int)Configuration::get('PS_COMPARATOR_MAX_ITEM'),
			'suppliers' => Supplier::getSuppliers(),
			'body_classes' => array($this->php_self.'-'.$this->category->id, $this->php_self.'-'.$this->category->link_rewrite)
		));
	}

   
 

[NemoPS]

Try adding this at the beginning of the init method, right after the $this->category assignment

 

$this->category->active = 1;

[Joos]

I've added it , but it doesnt work. Cleared cache of prestashop and my browser. See the code, did i add it wrong?

public function init()
	{
		// Get category ID
		$id_category = (int)Tools::getValue('id_category');
		if (!$id_category || !Validate::isUnsignedId($id_category))
			$this->errors[] = Tools::displayError('Missing category ID');

		// Instantiate category
		$this->category = new Category($id_category, $this->context->language->id);$this->category->active = 1;

		parent::init();

Edited January 26, 2015 by Joos (see edit history)

[Joos]

I've also tried this, but didnt work either 

public function init()
	{
		// Get category ID
		$id_category = (int)Tools::getValue('id_category');
		if (!$id_category || !Validate::isUnsignedId($id_category))
			$this->errors[] = Tools::displayError('Missing category ID');

		// Instantiate category
		$this->category = new Category($id_category, $this->context->language->id);

		parent::init();
		//check if the category is active and return 404 error if is disable.
		if (!$this->category->active) $this->category->active = 1;
		{
			header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
			header('Status: 404 Not Found');

[NemoPS]

Of course, you actually broke the code in the second

 

before the if, right before it, on its own line. It should have worked the first time though. You are not using overrides, are you?

 

$this->category->active = 1;

if (....

 

 

let us know what you get

[Joos]

public function init()
	{
		// Get category ID
		$id_category = (int)Tools::getValue('id_category');
		if (!$id_category || !Validate::isUnsignedId($id_category))
			$this->errors[] = Tools::displayError('Missing category ID');

		// Instantiate category
		$this->category->active = 1;
		$this->category = new Category($id_category, $this->context->language->id);

		parent::init();
		//check if the category is active and return 404 error if is disable.
		if (!$this->category->active)

Am not using any overides as far as i know of. It's still not working. Showing 3 products while the inactive category has about 935. You can check it out on http://goo.gl/PYqMdA if needed

[NemoPS]

Ah, it shows up then. Are those other products enabled? Since the category doesn't kick you out, that fix does work and you need to look somewhere else

[Joos]

Then I have no idea what's going wrong. Because it's showing up on one categorie but not in the rest. And only 3 products form the 900. Im lost...