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Getting child categories with flat categories enabled

Mex — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:50:23 +0000

If you enable the flat categories in your Magento store, some code that gets children of a given category might stop working. The following code can be used to get all the cildren of a given category with enabled flat categories:

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($id);    
$childCategories = $category
                    ->getCollection()
                    ->addAttributeToSelect(array('name', 'image', 'description'))
                    ->addIdFilter($category->getChildren());

Getting products from a category

Mex — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:38:28 +0000

The following code returns all products from within a certain category in a collection.

// category id = 5
// addAttributeToSelect is optional
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(5)->getProductCollection()->addAttributeToSelect('*');

Getting the parent category of a category

Mex — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:28:35 +0000

Use the following code to get a Magento categories parent category.

Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory()->getParentCategory();

Getting the name of the current category

Mex — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:05:59 +0000

While being on the Magento category page, it might be useful to display the category name. Use the following code to do so.

Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory()->getName();

Getting a category URL using the category id

Mex — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:57:08 +0000

To get a categories URL by category id, use the following code:

$categoryId = 55;
$url = Mage::getModel("catalog/category")->load($categoryId)->getUrl();