How to disable navigation menu link

Question

My magento version is 1.9 and i am using rwd theme.

I want to remove link from the menu on homepage... I tried the following stuff but it didn't work:

1. Create some folder as this path: app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block
2. Copy file Navigation.php from app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block to app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block

3. Go to function _renderCategoryMenuItemHtml()
   Replace the code

   $html[] = '<a href="'.$this->getCategoryUrl($category).'"'.$linkClass.'>';
   $html[] = '<span>' . $this->escapeHtml($category->getName()) . '</span>';
   $html[] = '</a>';
   

   with this code

   if($category->getLevel()== 2 && $hasActiveChildren) {
    $html[] = '<a href="[removed]void(0);"'.$linkClass.'>';
    $html[] = '<span>' . $this->escapeHtml($category->getName()) . '</span>';
    $html[] = '</a>';
   } else {
    $html[] = '<a href="'.$this->getCategoryUrl($category).'"'.$linkClass.'>';
    $html[] = '<span>' . $this->escapeHtml($category->getName()) . '</span>';
    $html[] = '</a>';
   }
   

• 7ochem: Ok, so you tried some stuff, but... what did happen (or didn't)? And what did you want to happen/achieve? I'm missing the actual question here, as "How to ...?", "Why ...?", "What ...?"
• karsh: i want to remove link from the menu on homepage...i tried the above stuff bt it didnt worked

Answer 1

If i understand your request correctly, you want to remove a category in your main product category structure from the main menu.

You can do this in the admin of your site catalog->manage-categories. Select the category you wish to hide and under the general information tab you have the Include in Navigation Menu * option that you can set to no.

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Answer 2

Starting version 1.7, the top menu is not rendered anymore using the app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Navigation.php block.
Instead it makes use of an event called page_block_html_topmenu_gethtml_before through which you can add anything to the top menu, not only categories.
The categories are added to the top menu using Mage_Catalog_Model_Observer::addCatalogToTopmenuItems that calls _addCategoriesToMenu from the same class
In this last mentioned method you will find the configuration of the menu item:

 $categoryData = array(
 'name' => $category->getName(),
 'id' => $nodeId,
 'url' => Mage::helper('catalog/category')->getCategoryUrl($category),
 'is_active' => $this->_isActiveMenuCategory($category)
 );

you can replace the line 'url' with something like this:

'url' => ($category->getLevel()== 2 && $hasActiveChildren) ? '[removed]void(0);' : Mage::helper('catalog/category')->getCategoryUrl($category),

• karsh: i want remove link from menu and my magento version is 1.9 rwd theme