Remove brands and categories from public view

Submitted by paddyman on Thu, 2009-11-12 16:52 in Price Tapestry

Hi David,

Have searched the forum but can't find a solution to the following question.

I would like to remove the brands and the categories in my database from public view i.e. remove mysite.com\brand\ and mysite.com\category\

Is there much involved in this ? Is it just a case of removing the two files ??

Many thanks

Adrian

Hi Adrian, Essentially yes -

Submitted by support on Thu, 2009-11-12 16:57

Hi Adrian,

Essentially yes - but i'd go a step further;

1) Remove the category and brand rewrite rules from .htaccess

2) Delete categories.php and brands.php and make sure that no links exist to them (or their rewrite equivalents /category/ and /brand/)

3) Disable the category: and brand: search operators in search.php (assuming that you don't need to use these operators for other purposes and it's only the indexes that you wish to "hide"). To do this; in search.php you will find:

      case "category":

        // pass through to brand

      case "brand":

...deleting these lines will disable those search operators.

Cheers,
David.

Perfect. Thanks for the

Submitted by paddyman on Thu, 2009-11-12 17:14

Perfect.

Thanks for the quick response. You're kept busy today :)

Cheers

Adrian