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I have many store views. I need to be able to retrieve id_path or request_path or target_path of current category or product page, so that I could retrieve target_path of the same category or product page for a different store view.

I needed to do this for the hreflang tags.

To make things easier I have the same url-key for the products, set to the product name and colour. Fortunately the model names are the same in all languages for this catalogue. I don't include the category path in the URL, model name and colour gives the uniques.

When it comes to categories, here is how I do it for the sitemaps. I am sure you can make this code more elegant, however, it is not something that needs to be fast for a user so I have gone for code that works rather than optimised code. My store codes are things like 'en_us' and I do a bit of manipulation on that, but here is the loop I have:

    /**

     * Generate categories sitemap

     */

    $changefreq = (string) Mage::getStoreConfig('sitemap/category/changefreq', $storeId);

    $priority   = (string) Mage::getStoreConfig('sitemap/category/priority', $storeId);

    $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('sitemap/catalog_category')->getCollection($storeId);

    $categories = new Varien_Object();

    $categories->setItems($collection);

    Mage::dispatchEvent('sitemap_categories_generating_before', array(

        'collection' => $categories

    ));

    foreach ($categories->getItems() as $item) {

        $hreflangs ='';

        foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website) {

            foreach ($website->getGroups() as $group) {

                $stores = $group->getStores();

                foreach ($stores as $store) {

                    $code = explode('_', $store->getCode());

                    $hreflang = $code[0];

                    if(isset($code[1])) $hreflang .= '-' . strtolower($code[1]);

                    $rewriteUrl = Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite')->setStoreId($store->getId())->loadByIdPath('category/'. $item->getId());

                    if ($rewriteUrl->getId()) {

                        $link = $rewriteUrl->getRequestPath();

                    } else {

                        $link = $item->getUrl();

                    }

                    $hreflangs .= '<xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="' . $store->getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_LINK) . $link . '" hreflang="' . $hreflang . '"/>' . "n";

                }

            }

        }



        $xml = sprintf(

            '<url><loc>%s</loc>%s<lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>%s</changefreq><priority>%.1f</priority></url>',

            htmlspecialchars($baseUrl . $item->getUrl()),

            $hreflangs,

            substr(Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($item->getId())->getUpdatedAt(),0,10),

            $changefreq,

            $priority

        );

        $io->streamWrite($xml);

    }

    unset($collection);

This results in things like:

<url>

    <loc>http://local.example.com/en_gb/men/key-holders</loc>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/it_it/men/portachiavi" hreflang="it-it"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/en_eu/men/key-holders" hreflang="en-eu"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/it_gb/men/portachiavi" hreflang="it-gb"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/en_gb/men/key-holders" hreflang="en-gb"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/it_us/men/portachiavi" hreflang="it-us"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/en_us/men/key-holders" hreflang="en-us"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/it/men/portachiavi" hreflang="it"/>

    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://local.example.com/en/men/key-holders" hreflang="en"/>

    <lastmod>2015-01-09</lastmod>

    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>

    <priority>0.5</priority>

</url>

It is still early days for me on this, please let me know if I am getting my hreflang tags wrong!

Needless to say the same technique should work for products.