How to display the products of one parent category classified by its subcategories

[morgana28]

Hello,

When I display the contents of a category I would like to show all of its subcategories with their products in the same page. How can I do that?

 

For example when I select “Category_1” from the main menu, the landing page would be:

 

Category_1 title

     Category_1 description

      SubCategory_1 title

          SubCategory_1 description

           SubCategory_1 products

       SubCategory_2 title

           SubCategory_2 description

           SubCategory_2 products

        .

        .

        .

      SubCategory_n title

             SubCategory_n description

             SubCategory_n products

 

Thanks in advance

[NemoPS]

It's going to be pretty resource intensive.
In any case, you need to override the CategoryController file.
There is a method named assignSubcategories
Inside it, once you have the subcategories in a variable, loop through them, instantiate a new Category object for each, using the ID, then user $category->getProducts() to get its products. I'd assign them to smarty afterwards, using the reference as key.
It does need some work, I might write a tut about it next week