Seperate Category.tpl Page

[clanger]

Hello Everyone,

First time poster and I'm not that great with PHP. I know bits and pieces and can usually figure code out by looking it over. What I am trying to accomplish is have a category page that has a different theme than the rest of them. I have created a category2.php and CategoryController2.php as well as category2.tpl

 

When calling on www.xxxxx.com/category2.php?id_category=1 for example, I get redirected to www.xxxxx.com/category.php which is displaying error:

 

There is 1 error :

 

1. Missing category ID
   

Any advice?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Dh42]

This is a bulkier way of doing it, but this is what I do in a situation like that. This is in pseudo code also

 

if category ==12

new category html

else

regular category html

/if

 

I just append the category.tpl and use an if statement in it to decide what to show. So then everything is in one file and you are not modifying anything more than the template. A little more code overhead on your server, but it is really not an issue.

[clanger]

Where would I put this code, and is this exactly what I put? Just change the category number to match the page I want?

Thanks so much in advance, this seems so much easier

[clanger]

I would really really appreciate a little help in this. This is the last thing that I need to figure out and I am good to go.

 

Thank you in advance.

[clanger]

I am assuming that something would have to be added to this section of the categorycontroller?

 

 

 

 

public function displayContent()
{
 parent::displayContent();
 self::$smarty->assign('categoryNameComplement', '');
 self::$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category.tpl');
}

 

Any help at all is GREATLY appreciated.

[Dh42]

I was actually talking about doing the check inside of the category.tpl file. It really actually depends on how much modification you are trying to do as to where you need to put it.

[clanger]

I just need to have a seperate category.TPL file so I can theme it differently. It won't have the left colums, right column, etc. Basically just have the products and some text aroud the page that will be updated from time to time.

[clanger]

"Bump" I would almost pay someone to help me get this working at this point.

[clanger]

Bump.......I beg of you, anyone. I know this would be simple to do, I just don't have the ability.

[C@Miltec]

I am currently trying to get one category to load a different category.tpl file based on the category id so I have edited CategoryController.php and changed

 

public function displayContent()
{
 parent::displayContent();
self::$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category.tpl');
}
}

 

to

 

public function displayContent()
{
 parent::displayContent();

 if ($_GET['id_category'])
   $category = $_GET['id_category'];
else if ($_GET['id_product'])
{
   $product = new Product($_GET['id_product']);   
   $category = $product->id_category_default;
}
self::$smarty->assign('category', $category);
 if(($category) == '2')
 self::$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category2.tpl');
 else
 self::$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category.tpl');
}
}

But now it appears that neither category.tpl nor category2.tpl will load, every thing else is fine though.

 

As for having a category page without the left column and right colum, you would need to load a different header.tpl for the left and a different footer.tpl for the right, I have managed to get that to work using basically the code above in frontcontroller.php

[codegrunt]

First, *NEVER* edit core files. You should not have to, you can use class overrides for this purpose (look at "/overrides").

 

Second, you have no guarantee that the category ID is being passed by GET nor should you have to worry about that. It will be set properly when CategoryController::process() is called. So instead use the category object itself to test against:

 

public function displayContent()
{
 parent::displayContent();
 self::$smarty->assign('categoryNameComplement', '');
 if($this->category->id_category=1234)
 {
  self::$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category1234.tpl');
 }
 else
 {
  self::$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category.tpl');
 }
}

 

Cheers