How to hide categories with no products?

[Former Member]

We are not using WCMS in our website. We get the top navigation menu from a custom category heirarchy which we have made. So in a case, where a category has no products tagged to it, we shouldn't display it.

I guess we could check if the category has products getProducts() and then if its subcategories have products. but is there a better way to do this?. Is there any existing service to get all products associated to a category?

[VinayKumarS]

Directly we cannot implement this. because this categories information comes from solr. also when categories retried it will not check if there are any active products or not. Once user select the category then it will query the database to identify the active products from the category. Directly we cannot hide this empty category.

If you really want to implement then you have to customize your code to hide such categories.