Access Sub-category without Parent Category

In Admin:

Admin -> System -> Config -> Catalog -> Search Engine Optimizations -> Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs (set to NO)

Programmatically:

Open the class Mage_Catalog_Model_Url and comment the below line

//if (null === $parentPath) { // $parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category); //} //elseif ($parentPath == '/') { $parentPath = ''; //} 

under function getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath)

You can always create a local of your file, just in order to avoid over riding the core files

we made this extension to do it

https://github.com/seansan/snh_settings_CategoryParentUrl

Up+1 if you like it

i can recommend you to try below default function

Remove parent category path from url and change it from

http://mysite.com/category/sub-category.html to http://mysite.com/sub-category.html

USAGE :

Go to the Magento Admin Panel -> System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Seo Options

Select yes or no from "Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs"

Refresh category url index

Option YES => http://mysite.com/category/sub-category.html

Option NO => http://mysite.com/sub-category.html

Edit

 <global> <models> <catalog> <rewrite> <product_url>YourNamespace_Catalog_Model_Product_Url</product_url> </rewrite> </catalog> </models> </global> 

you can try to rewrite url for category. hope this could be work for you. i am not 100% sure about this modle url rewrite in magento1.7

Hope this will sure help you.

To remove parent category path from child category url
Rewrite class Mage_Catalog_Model_Url
override method public function getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath) like below

public function getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath) { $storeId = $category->getStoreId(); $idPath = $this->generatePath('id', null, $category); $suffix = $this->getCategoryUrlSuffix($storeId); if (isset($this->_rewrites[$idPath])) { $this->_rewrite = $this->_rewrites[$idPath]; $existingRequestPath = $this->_rewrites[$idPath]->getRequestPath(); } if ($category->getUrlKey() == '') { $urlKey = $this->getCategoryModel()->formatUrlKey($category->getName()); } else { $urlKey = $this->getCategoryModel()->formatUrlKey($category->getUrlKey()); } $categoryUrlSuffix = $this->getCategoryUrlSuffix($category->getStoreId()); // Code commented to remove parent category path from child category path //if (null === $parentPath) { //$parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category); //} //elseif ($parentPath == '/') { $parentPath = ''; //} $parentPath = Mage::helper('catalog/category')->getCategoryUrlPath($parentPath, true, $category->getStoreId()); $requestPath = $parentPath . $urlKey . $categoryUrlSuffix; if (isset($existingRequestPath) && $existingRequestPath == $requestPath . $suffix) { return $existingRequestPath; } if ($this->_deleteOldTargetPath($requestPath, $idPath, $storeId)) { return $requestPath; } return $this->getUnusedPath($category->getStoreId(), $requestPath, $this->generatePath('id', null, $category) ); } 

Modified below code

if (null === $parentPath) { $parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category); } elseif ($parentPath == '/') { $parentPath = ''; } 

to

//if (null === $parentPath) { // $parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category); //} elseif ($parentPath == '/') { $parentPath = ''; //}