How to remove parent category path from sub category url in Magento

Go to app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/

Open Url.php and find -> getCategoryRequestPath($category, $parentPath)

Then comment some lines:-

//if (null === $parentPath) {
//$parentPath = $this->getResource()->getCategoryParentPath($category);
//}
//elseif ($parentPath == '/') {
$parentPath = ''; //('Don't comment it')
//}

Now save.

Now login to admin panel of your site then go to System->Config->Index Management and click on select all then select Reindex Data from the Action Dropdown then click on submit.

Playing with dates in magento

Introduction

Magento makes an usage of timezone which is configured from the backend (System > Configuration > General > Locale Options > Timezone) for formatting/displaying date/time.

$currentTimestamp = Mage::getModel('core/date')->timestamp(time()); //Magento's timestamp function makes a usage of timezone and converts it to timestamp

echo $date = date('Y-m-d', $currentTimestamp); //The value may differ than above because of the timezone settings.







Some Useful Examples

1. Displaying current date

1 2	$currentTimestamp = Mage::getModel('core/date')->timestamp(time()); echo $currentDate = date('Y-m-d', $currentTimestamp);

OR

1	echo $currentDate = Mage::getModel('core/date')->date('Y-m-d');

2. Formatting any date in any format

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$anyDate = '2011-12-11'; $dateTimestamp = Mage::getModel('core/date')->timestamp(strtotime($anyDate)); echo $currentDate = date('d.m.Y', $dateTimestamp);

OR

1 2	$anyDate = '2011-12-11'; echo $currentDate = Mage::getModel('core/date')->date('d.m.Y', strtotime($anyDate));

3. Predefined date formatting

1 2	$dateToFormat = '2011-12-11'; Mage::helper('core')->formatDate($dateToFormat, 'medium', false);

Note: Mage_Core_Helper_Data::format() has following arguments

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/**  * Format date using current locale options  *  * @param   date|Zend_Date|null $date in GMT timezone  * @param   string $format (full, long, medium, short)  * @param   bool $showTime  * @return  string  */ public function formatDate($date=null, $format='short', $showTime=false) { .... }