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This code for linking to a category page:
href="/products/?category={{ category.slug }}"
Generates this URL: www.website.com/products/?category=category-name
Can someone please tell me how to code links in menus (etc) that will produce URLs without the ?category= string being included in the URL. So that the URL would become: www.website.com/products/category-name
Many thanks for your help - it is greatly appreciated!
First thing you'll need to do is set up a route that ensures anything for /products/category-name gets routed to the correct template. You can do this from the control panel or via craft/config/routes.php
If you do this in your routes.php file you'd need something like this:
return array(
'products/(.*?)' => 'products/index',
);
Which is telling Craft that for any url that contains products/any-characters it should use the products/index template.
Then, on that template, grab the segment that is the category slug
{% set catSegment = craft.request.segment(2) %}
You'll then need to get the category that has that slug
{% set category = craft.categories.slug(catSegment).first() %}
You then have a category model you can work with and can use a craft entries tag with a category criteria using
{% set products = craft.entries.relatedTo(category).find() %}
Loop through products to output your products.
