Set category as homepage

[dude12]

Hi guys,

I searched around, but couldn't find a decent answer.

I prefer the look and contents of my main category page to the homepage.

It there a way to set a category as homepage?

[Paulito]

Hello

 

See  if this Tutorial helps you

 

https://mypresta.eu/en/art/developer/category-page-as-landing-page-of-your-prestashop.html

 

Paul

[catalin.scaesteanu]

Hello

 

See  if this Tutorial helps you

 

https://mypresta.eu/en/art/developer/category-page-as-landing-page-of-your-prestashop.html

 

Paul

 

This tutorial should do the job.

Also create an override, don't modify the IndexController directly because when you update prestashop this file will be re-written.

 

More information about overrides here: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Overriding+default+behaviors

Edited August 6, 2015 by Catalin Scaesteanu (see edit history)

[dude12]

I pasted the summary code at the bottom of the tutorial and now home page returns 404.

[catalin.scaesteanu]

I pasted the summary code at the bottom of the tutorial and now home page returns 404.

I just tested it on a fresh install of ps v1.6.1.0 and it's working.

You might get 404 error because you set the wrong category id.

Make sure this is set correctly $_GET['id_category'] = 3; -> 3 in this case is the id of Women category from default PrestaShop, yours might be something else.

[dude12]

Works!

Thanks a million.

I'll make the override

[dude12]

class IndexController extends IndexControllerCore
{
	class IndexControllerCore extends CategoryController
	{
	 public $php_self = 'index';
	/**
	 * Assign template vars related to page content
	 * @see FrontController::initContent()
	 */
	 public function init(){
	 $_GET['id_category']=12;
	 parent::init();
	 }
	 public function initContent()
	 {
	 parent::initContent();
	 }
	}
}

Sorry to suck so much at coding, but for the override, do I have to place <?php before class IndexController extends IndexControllerCore?

It worked when I directly edited IndexController.php, but now that I'm doing it with an override, it doesn't work with or without <?php

Edited August 6, 2015 by dude12 (see edit history)

[catalin.scaesteanu]

Yes you need <?php starting tag in every .php file.

 

1. Create an empty file IndexController.php in /root/override/controllers/front/

2. Add the following code to the file:

<?php


class IndexController extends CategoryControllerCore {


    public $php_self = 'index';


    /**
     * Assign template vars related to page content
     * @see FrontController::initContent()
     */
    public function init() {
        $_GET['id_category'] = 12;
        parent::init();
    }


    public function initContent() {
        parent::initContent();
    }


}

 

3. Delete file: /root/cache/class_index.php

4. Reload homepage

Edited August 6, 2015 by Catalin Scaesteanu (see edit history)