I have a single category, that has 2 subcategories. Within each of these categories, are 5 subcategories.
Is there a way to get a list of all of these 10 sub-sub-categories?
Thanks
EDIT:
Something like this:
Main Category
Sub_Cat_1
Cat_1
Cat_2
Cat_3
Sub_Cat_2
Cat_4
Cat_5
Cat_6
Wanting output like:
Cat_1
Cat_2
Cat_3
Cat_4
Cat_5
Cat_6
Thanks
All answers so far load children categories in a loop which is generally bad practice and causes execution of many SQL queries where a single one would suffice.
Let $parentCategory
be your Main Category, then this collection will load all subcategories, two levels below:
$subcategoryCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')
->getCollection()
->addFieldToFilter('level', $parentCategory->getLevel() + 2)
->addFieldToFilter('path', ['like' => $parentCategory->getData('path') . '/%']);
The path
field contains the category id prefixed with all ancestor ids in the form 1/2/3
. Database wise it is a column in catalog_category_entity
that has an index, so comparison like this has no performance issues.
Figured it out:
$cat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(24);
$subcats = $cat->getChildren();
foreach(explode(',',$subcats) as $subCatid)
{
$_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($subCatid);
if($_category->getIsActive()) {
$sub_cat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_category->getId());
$sub_subcats = $sub_cat->getChildren();
foreach(explode(',',$sub_subcats) as $sub_subCatid)
{
$_sub_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($sub_subCatid);
if($_sub_category->getIsActive()) {
echo '<li class="sub_cat"><a href="'.$_sub_category->getURL().'" title="View the products for the "'.$_sub_category->getName().'" category">'.$_sub_category->getName().'</a></li>';
}
}
}
}
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