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[deepblue_tiano]

Hello, I am having trouble getting the clean url of product category then pass it to a variable template.

here's my sample code in bread_crumbs.tpl:

<span itemprop="url" url="{$http_location}/{$l.1}" title="{$l.0}">{$l.0}</span>

I am getting

<span itemprop="url" url="http://localhost/home.php?cat=12" title=Category name>Category name</span>

instead of

<span itemprop="url" url="http://localhost/category-name/" title=Category name>Category name</span>

clean url are working if you use that in href tags

[totaltec]

I see several ways to get the clean URL, not sure which to advise you to use. For instance, on a category page we have:
{$php_url} - returns the whole string "http://yourdomain.com/this-category-url/"

{$canonical_url} - returns just "this-category-url/"

{$current_category.clean_url} - returns "this-category-url/" as well

On the product page {$canonical_url} returns "this-product.html" and {$php_url} gives "http://yourdomain.com/this-product.html"

Hope that helps.

[deepblue_tiano]

Those solution might work if I am on the category page, But since I am on the product page it would return the product clean url. What I want is get the clean URL on the bread_crumbs.tpl on which the product categories are located.

[totaltec]

Okay. Now I understand. That is going to be difficult, I'm afraid.

You are going to have to query the DB, and assign the product's category's clean URL to an array. I think I can put you on the right track. On the product page, it looks like the $location array is being built near line 292, with this snippet of code:

// Get category location
if (
    $cat > 0
    && $current_category = func_get_category_data($cat)
) {
    
    if (is_array($current_category['category_location'])) {
        foreach ($current_category['category_location'] as $k => $v) {

            $location[] = $v;

        }
    }

}

Recursively search your files for that function "func_get_category_data", hopefully you can understand it's operation enough to add the Clean URL to the array, rather than the home.php?cat=123 that is currently being passed.

[deepblue_tiano]

I was able to get the clean url of categories by using func_clean_url_get function on my product page and then add an entry to my location array.

[totaltec]

Chistian, thanks for providing your final solution. It would be even better if you shared the completed code.