Make Hikashop category links match Joomla menu?

Hi all, I'm using HikaShop Business: 2.3.0 on Joomla 3.3.0 Stable. PHP is version 5.3.28.

I have a category linked directly from a Joomla menu, and the same category that is linked from the "Categories Listing" display of Hikashop.

If you were to view this page:

playerkits.com/product-options

you will see that the category showing in the main page of "My Products" has this link:

playerkits.com/product-options/category/45-my-products

this is not the one that I want.

If you check the module showing to the left, you will see that the "My Products" link is as such:

playerkits.com/my-products

This is the link that I want. How can I make the category links that Hikashop generates match the Joomla menu I define?

This is not just a matter of Canonical links. The way the Hikashop menu is generated, the category does not become it's own separate page, but rather is still regarded as a subpage the the current page.

For example, the first page " playerkits.com/product-options " has a menu ID of 223.

If you click the Hikashop generated category link to "My Products", it still shows as being ID 223 in the body tag class. If you click the link in the module, it is a new page and shows with an ID of 224.

This matters because sometimes I must refer to the body class in my css and the pages can look different if I can't do that.

Thanks for your assistance and let me know if further explanation is required.

You would have to edit the view file generating these links (probably the file "listing_img_title" of the view category" on your website and change the link generated by HikaShop to the link you want.
Or you could use a SEF extension like sh404sef and its alias system to replace the URLs.

Next version of HikaShop, which will be released this month will have a new option to automatically use the canonical URL as the link on the listings generated by HikaShop. And thus you could enter the menu item URL in the canonical URL parameter of the categories in order to get the same links.

Ok, I understand. That makes sense.

Thanks for the assistance and info.

Thats really great!! waiting for next release

Just as an update here, I decided to try SH404SEF, but that ended up giving me problems with some of the categories inexplicably giving me 404 errors.

That seemed to be overkill anyway, so I decided to use a plugin called ReDJ:

extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-ma...url-redirection/7189

this one worked like a charm with no fuss no muss! try it out if you end up with url issues...