Difficulty: Medium
Modification: Core Controller
Q:
I am trying to find a way to redirect the url for a simple product to go to the corresponding configurable product. For example if I have a link to a small blue t-shirt, it would go to the main t-shirt page where the attributes are available to select.
A:
You will need to modify the ProductController to make it look for a configurable product and display it when someone asks for a simple product.
The file you need to modify is /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/controllers/ProductController and the method name is _initProduct().
Find the code which retrieves the product to be displayed:
$product = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’)
->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
->load($productId); And add this code after it:
if($product->type_id==“simple”)
{
$parentId=$product->loadParentProductIds()->getData('parent_product_ids');
if(isset($parentId[0]))
{
$product=Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($parentId[0]);
}
} That’s it, simple and elegant.
Tags: Development, Ecommerce, Magento, Q&A