redirect product pages to the parent category instead

[dhilditch]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your help - that did the trick.

I have another question - We don't send users to the product description view although we ARE using the product description view to enable likes on facebook.

What I would really like to do, is if someone clicks a link from facebook, they will land on the product detail page - what I want to do is redirect them to the parent category instead.

I understand that each product can have multiple categories but is there a shortcode that returns these categories?

1) I can modify the php file to check the referred field and not perform this redirect for facebook robot
2) On the category page, I will know which product the redirect came from and then scroll the user to that product and highlight it.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

[Eric]

Hi

You can use the following PHP function to get the relative URL of the category page (substitute my category ID 591459 with yours):

PHP Code:

dfr("url")->query_to_url('view=category&c=591459') 


This returns something like:

/store/category/shoes/

Eric

[dhilditch]

Is there a similar function which will accept a productid and take me to (any of) the parent category?

[Eric]

Hi

If you have the product ID, you will already have the category ID to pass to that function. The product's category ID can be found using this variable:

PHP Code:

$product->cat_id 


Here's all of the possible variables of the $product object: http://www.datafeedr.com/forums/show...1079#post31079

Eric