How to change category URL in router.php

Hi,

The part hikashop-menu-for-module-123 is the alias of your menu item. You can't remove it in Joomla with 2 exceptions:
- The menu item is the hompage of your website. In that case the menu item alias is removed automatically by the SEF system of Joomla. So, provided that your homepage is a menu item of the type HikaShop categories listing, you could select it in the "menu" setting of your module (where the URL is generated) and you would get the links without the menu item alias automatically.
- You're using a third party SEF extension like SH404SEF which allows you to have aliases for the URLs on your website.
The part "category" of the URL can be removed by emptying the field "category SEF name" in the HikaShop configuration page.

You could of course modify the router.php to remove these parts, but the Joomla SEF system won't be able to interpret the URLs without the menu item alias in them so it would require an extra system plugin to translate the URLs before the Joomla routing. So it's going to be quite complex and take quite some time to develop. In that case, it would be best to use a third party SEF extension with an alias system so that you could put the URLs you want in it.

Similarily, removing both is not a problem when you create the URLs, but when HikaShop interprets the URLs, it won't know which one it is and thus it won't be able to choose between both type of pages.
To avoid that, what you can do is create one menu item for each category reproducing the category structure in the menu items structure. That way, you'll be able to have the aliases of the menu items for the categories on the listings (and thus you won't have the "category" piece anymore in the URLs).

Hi,

If you have your home menu item as a hikashop categories listing menu item and that you also have a child menu item of that menu item being also a hikashop categories listing menu item but with the corresponding sub category selected, then I don't see why you would get the "category" piece in the SEF URL. You must have missed something in the settings of the menu items, or you've set a canonical URL in the category with the "category" part in it and you've configured HikaShop to use the canonical URLs on listings.

Removing parts of the URL in the router.php is easy if you're a developer.
At the begining of the function HikashopBuildRoute( &$query ), just remove the bits you don't want in $query.
For example, for category:

if($query['ctrl']=='category') unset($query['ctrl']);