My wordpress site has categories with a simple hierarchy –
Blog
Role Shift
Urod the Last Show
News
I'm using the if statement below to catch if the post is in category blog or any of the child categories - and it works - but it feels stupid not to be able to just check the parent of the current category (plus I might want to add categories later).
if ( is_category('blog') || in_category(array('role-shift', 'urod-the-last-show', 'news')) )
I've searched and tried every suggestion - including cat_is_ancestor_of - but nothing is working.
Please help!
Robert
$categories = get_the_category(); //returns categories
$thiscat = $categories[0];
$parent_id = $thiscat->parent; //the parent id
$parent = get_category($parent_id) //this returns the parent category as an object
//use id or slug of category you are searching for
if( $parent_id == 1 || $thiscat->slug == 'blog' ){
//this is a child of blog or the blog page
}
This should do the trick.
This will determine if the current category is a child of the blog page.
The first part, get_category, returns the current category.
Then you can get the parent id from the current category and use 'get_the_category_by_ID' to get the parent category object.
Then you can check if you are under the parent category you want.
I having been searching for days to get the last subcategory of a product in magento.
Actually what i have to do is display the last subcategory the product is placed in. for example i have plastic and glass as products. I want to display the last subcategory i.e cups or plates.
|Party
--|boys
----|batman
--------|cups
-----------|plastic
-----------|glass
--------|plates
----|Superman
i have edited the list.phtml file, i can get the category id's and name from the array but they are all mixed up. So there is no way to figure out which one is the last category.
Is there any default functionality in magento? or someone be kind enough to help me out?
Thanks in advance.
Edit
Okay, from your description it sounds like you want to get the child categories from the current category you're in. (I.E. Get cups and plates while in batman category view).
The following should be just about as little as you need to get the current children.
<?php
$_helper = Mage::helper('catalog/category');
$children = Mage::registry( 'current_category' )->getChildrenCategories();
?>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $children as $child ): ?>
<li><?php echo $child->getName() ?></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
Previous Answer(s)
It's a little roundabout, but this can get you the parent category id from a product object.
//If you don't have a product to start with, load by ID.
$_product = Mage::getModel( 'catalog/product' )->load($id);
//Assign Category Model
$categoryModel = Mage::getModel( 'catalog/category' );
//Get Array of Category Id's with Last as First (Reversed)
$_categories = array_reverse( $_product->getCategoryIds() );
//Get Parent Category Id
$_parentId = $categoryModel->load($_categories[0])->getParentId();
//Load Parent Category
$_category = $categoryModel->load($_parentId);
//Do something with $_category
echo $_category->getName();
It works better when the product only has one category Id assigned to it. You may not get the category you want if multiple categories have been assigned to that one product.
Also, you can get it a slightly quicker way, but this method doesn't work if the product was searched for:
$_category = Mage::getModel( 'catalog/category' )->load( Mage::registry( 'current_category' )->getParentId() );
I didn't test the line above, but it should work. Only if the product was reached by browsing through the categories though.
How can I get "original" category name in Magento where I already translated category name for current store view. I would like to get category name as entered in All Store views because I would like to send original (English) name to GA for tracking - I need this when I'm on category page.
I can get localized category name in this way:
<?php
$currentCategory = Mage::registry('current_category');
$name = $currentCategory->getName();
?>
But couldn't find a way to get untranslated name without additional calls to database.
As mentioned above, this will need additional database requests. The following should work:
$defaultStoreCategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$defaultStoreCategory->setStoreId(Mage_Catalog_Model_Abstract::DEFAULT_STORE_ID);
$defaultStoreCategory->load($currentCategory->getId());
$name = $defaultStoreCategory->getName();
Try with this code
$storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')
->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
->load(YOUR_CATEGORY_ID);
Hope this helps.
I'm currently using the following snippet to get my category ID for each product.
$categoryIds = $_product->getCategoryIds();
foreach($categoryIds as $categoryId) {
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
echo $category->getName();
echo $category->getUrlPath();
}
I have then been passing the result of that into a switch to identify the category name.
My problem is that I have just added a sale category that some products will be put into, and the result of
echo $category->getName();
is the sale category and not the "actual" category it is in.
Does anyone have suggestions for how to make it a) ignore the sale category, b) get next category id stored for the product?, c) make it work some other way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Not really sure what is the goal, but you can do something like
if ($category->getName == 'Sales') {
continue;
}
or array_filter $categoryIds excluding Sales category
I want to copy my first category to a second category in Magento.
What should I do?
Thanks,
Wesley.
By code:
<?php
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')
->load(123); // The ID of the category you want to copy.
$copy = clone $category;
$copy->setId(null) // Remove the ID.
->save();
If you want to do it in a programmatic way you can use the Magento API.
Use:
catalog_category.info - to read a category
catalog_category.create - to create a new one by copying data from existing.
Here are the docs for category API
I wouldn't clone the category object, but rather do something like this (using the Magento API - http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/doc/webservices-api/catalog_category ):
get the category which must be copied
$source_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($id);
Create a new category using the API
$CategoryApi = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category_Api();
$parent_id = /* Location for the new category */
$new_category_id = $CategoryApi->create(
$parent_id,
array(
/* Attributes to fill with source category values. */
)
);
Get the source category products and place them in the new category, again with the API.
$products = $CategoryApi->assignedProducts(source_category->getId());
foreach($products as $product)
{
$CategoryApi->assignProduct($product->getId())
}
Above must be done recursively for each subcategory.
Note: Using the API ensures your code will still work when you upgrade the Magento core.
All the replies here were not complete. I did a script that does the total Creating the new category, subcategories and assigning the products to them.
public function run()
{
$categoryId = 123;
// Change this if you want the copy to be under another category than the default
$baseCategoryId = 2;
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
$defaultCategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($baseCategoryId);
$this->duplicate($category, $defaultCategory, 1);
}
private function duplicate($categoryToClone, $parentCategory, $level)
{
// This will clone the clild and assign it to the new parent
$newCategory = clone $categoryToClone;
$newCategory->setPath($parentCategory->getPath())
->setParentId($parentCategory->getId())
->setId(null);
// Optional, Only change the new with suffix with "new" for the first
if ($level == 1) {
$newCategory->setUrlKey($categoryToClone->getUrlKey() . '-new')
->setName($categoryToClone->getName() . '(new)');
}
// Assign all products from the cloned category to the new
$newCategory->setPostedProducts($categoryToClone->getProductsPosition());
$newCategory->save();
// Applies the changes to the subcategories infinite levels
$subcategories = $categoryToClone->getChildrenCategories();
if (count($subcategories) > 0) {
foreach ($subcategories as $subcategory) {
$this->duplicate($subcategory, $newCategory, ++$level);
}
}
}
You can't with the admin interface, you need. to create a script with the category api.
Sorry you cannot copy/paste Category directly in Magento Admin panel through the interface, which Catalog Products can offer with the help of "Duplicate" button.
I suppose you will need to write a script fetching the category details by first loading the Category model with the required Category ID.
This forum post contains instructions and code for importing your categories from a CSV file.
Good luck,
JD
I think you want to export products from a specific cat and import it to another one. if it's so use the steps bellow:
login to magento backend
navigate to System -> Import/Export
Create a new advanced profile for your cat
export it
now import it in the same fashion
Sometime we need to copy same products to another category.(Like we have two stores with same category or within same store need to copy the category products to somewhere else)
Adding product from back-end is very time consuming process you can do it by code.
You can create a file in your root directory copy-products.php with the following code to copy product:
<?php
require_once ( "app/Mage.php" );
umask(0);
// Initialize Magento
Mage::app();
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->load('24'); // Category id you want to copy
$collection = $category->getProductCollection();
$collection->addAttributeToSelect('*');
foreach ($collection as $product) {
$product->getId();// Now get category ids and add a specific category to them and save?
$categories = $product->getCategoryIds();
$categories[] = 29; // Category id you want to add
$product->setCategoryIds($categories);
$product->save();
}
?>