Turned off/deleted category - how can I redirect to homepage?

Hi,

How would I go about making a turned off or deleted category/product redirect to the homepage.

Turned off categories currently give the "There are no products to list in this category" message.

I currently use top categories set up as "Masters", which is where I add all my products. I then link the products to various other subcategories. When I originally set my cart up, I had products in top categories. I am now using subcategories, hence the reason for using the original tops as masters.

So... I just want anything that is turned off to go straight to the homepage.

Hope I haven't been too confusing :)

http://www.pregnancyshop.com.au

Cheers

Amanda

Hi again :)

I'm still looking for a solution to this. Any suggestions??

Thanks.

Categories hold either Categories or Products and not both ...

The Master Categories ID needs to be the immediate Category that the Product belongs to ... not a parent category ...

Thanks Ajeh,

I had already reassigned all products to the new master categories, so that side of it is ok.

As the old top category still exists (has no sub categories or products) if someone clicks the link via a search engine they land on this page:

http://www.pregnancyshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

Even deleted top categories land at this page:

http://www.pregnancyshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6

How can I have these turned off or deleted categories go directly to the homepage instead of these, I suppose you could call them dead pages? I think that left this way, it looks as though I either don't sell these products or the site is incomplete.

Thanks in advance

If you go directly to a categories_id that does not exist nor have a product in it nor an inactive categories_id ... you will get the message that no Products exist ...

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is there a way to redirect these pages to the homepage?

You would have to write the code for that ...

Currently, it is doing the best that it can with an unknown or unavailable categories_id and still displaying something that at least does not trigger errors ...

This is the bit of code in product_listing.php that shows the 'There are no products to list in this category'

$list_box_contents[0] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-odd"');
$list_box_contents[0][] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-data"',
'text' => TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS);

So how could we make it so instead of posting that text, it does a HTML redirect back to the homepage.