Product Type Redirect Info Page to Category Page

[DannyVarley]

Hi Guys,

I currently have a product type that the products are only ever added to the card from the product listing page and never the product info page for this certain product type. I have deleted all main links to the product info page so this cannot normally be accessed but I am wondering if there would be a way, so If the customer manages to click a link to the product info page that this is then redirected to the category page.

For example on the shopping cart if this link is clicked it would bring you back to the category page. I hope this makes sense.

I was thinking the way that it might be handled is changing something in the includes/modules/pages/product_units_info/header_php.php to redirect to the products cateogry?

Thanks!

[mc12345678]

That file or using an observer off of one of the notifiers that may have been used/incorporated would be a place where you could put a zen_redirect call to go to the category desired for the associated product. Would need to lookup what category the product is in and then determine the cPath desired for the redirect's parameters.

[DannyVarley]

Thanks for the point in the right direction! I'm not used to many of the functions so I've been digging and the solution I have come up with encase anyone comes across this thread:

In my includes/modules/pages/NEWPAGE/header_php.php I have added the following line:

zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . zen_get_generated_category_path_rev(zen_get_products_category_id((int)$_GET['products_id'])))); 

From what I can tell this does the following

zen_redirect is a function to redirect to another link
zen_href_link is the function to generate zencart links
zen_get_generated_category_path is the function with generates the full cPath when you give it the category id
zen_get_caterogy_id gets the category id from the product id

This seems to work exactly how I need!