Remove category from product url

[diana13]

At some point, my products url looks like:
www.mysite.com/idproduct-product-name.html

But now, all my products links are:
www.mysite.com/category/idproduct-product-name.html
Without any changes in htaccess

How can I remove category from product link? I want them to show like in the first link.

[kratzbaum]

I'm also interested in this problem.

I'm upgarding from a lower version of prestashop and would like to kee urls intact.

Help appreciated.

[diana13]

You have to modify classes/Link.php. Find the function "public function getProductLink" (line 37)

and replace the entire function (lines 37 to 48) with

public function getProductLink($id_product, $alias = NULL, $category = NULL, $ean13 = NULL)
   {
        if (!isset($this->allow)) $this->allow = 0;
       if (is_object($id_product))
           return ($this->allow == 1)?(_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.intval($id_product->id).'-'.$id_product->link_rewrite.($id_product->ean13 ? '-'.$id_product->ean13 : '').'.html') : 
           (_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'product.php?id_product='.intval($id_product->id));
       elseif ($alias)
           return ($this->allow == 1)?(_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.intval($id_product).'-'.$alias.($ean13 ? '-'.$ean13 : '').'.html') : 
           (_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'product.php?id_product='.intval($id_product));
       else
           return _PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'product.php?id_product='.intval($id_product);
   }

[kratzbaum]

Thanks a lot. I will check your solution later today.

I was already looking at this piece of code earlier but couldn't get my head around it.

[diana13]

I'm glad I could help you.
Can you tell me what module do you use for product comment? I like it.

[kratzbaum]

The commenting function is not a module for prestashop. It's a custom solution based on javascript, ruby on rails, an json. It's running on a different server. I have programmed it myself to suit my specific needs.

[idseo]

Thank You so much search for this for long time

[antonpas_bcn]

---Delete please---

Edited July 12, 2012 by antonpas_bcn (see edit history)

[mike_davidson]

You can revert back to the original file and the problem would get solved.

[davers44]

Hi,

 

I see several prestashop folders that do not have category subfolders in their product friendly url, in my PS1.4 seems like category is added to every product URL.I often change subcategory and not having it included into product url will help avoiding 404 errors.

 

I tried to edit only link.php as suggested above removing category from getproductlink function and it seems to work fine in localhost. Is that really all I need to do or I risk errors in the future?

 

Thanks

 

You have to modify classes/Link.php. Find the function "public function getProductLink" (line 37)

 

and replace the entire function (lines 37 to 48) with

public function getProductLink($id_product, $alias = NULL, $category = NULL, $ean13 = NULL)
{
	 if (!isset($this->allow)) $this->allow = 0;
	if (is_object($id_product))
		return ($this->allow == 1)?(_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.intval($id_product->id).'-'.$id_product->link_rewrite.($id_product->ean13 ? '-'.$id_product->ean13 : '').'.html') :
		(_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'product.php?id_product='.intval($id_product->id));
	elseif ($alias)
		return ($this->allow == 1)?(_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.intval($id_product).'-'.$alias.($ean13 ? '-'.$ean13 : '').'.html') :
		(_PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'product.php?id_product='.intval($id_product));
	else
		return _PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'product.php?id_product='.intval($id_product);
}