module "TM Category Products" in custom hook (additional tab area)

[prestashopuser1337]

Hello,

 

my PS version is v1.6.1.11

 

my situation: I had the two modules "TM Category Products" and "Block new products" in the frontpage hook "displayHomeTab" and "displayHomeTabContent" (and "displayHome").

 

What I want to do is split the two tabs into two tabbed areas. So I added

{hook h='displaySecondHomeTab'}

and

{hook h='displaySecondHomeTabContent'}

in the index.tpl of my template.

 

I also added

            && $this->registerHook('displaySecondHome')
            && $this->registerHook('displaySecondHomeTab')
            && $this->registerHook('displaySecondHomeTabContent')

in the /modules/tmcategoryproducts/tmcategoryproducts.php's install-function to initalize the module for the new hooks.

 

I also added the hooking methods hookDisplaySecondHome, hookDisplaySecondHomeTab und hookDisplaySecondHomeContent by duplicating the methods for the original hookings methods.

 

There it holds the hooks for the original displayHomeTab and displayHomeTabContent. Then I reinitialized the module "TM Category Products", removed them from the hooks displayHomeTab and displayHomeTabContent and added (transplanted) it to the now appearing hooks displaySecondHomeTab and displaySecondHomeTabContent.

 

After adding categories to the TM Category Products module they showed up in the new hook in the frontend, but as soon as I select a category it is still displayed in the displayHomeTabContent hook and not in the newly created displaySecondHomeTab.

 

How do I get the content displayed only in the displaySecondHomeTabContent?

 

TIA and best regards

Edited May 15, 2017 by prestashopuser1337 (see edit history)

[prestashopuser1337]

Does anyone have an idea how to solve my problem with Prestashop?

 

Do you need more explanations about what I want to achieve or more information about my Prestashop configuration?

 

 

I would really appreciate some help on this issue since the dev documentation of prestashop isn't exactly brilliant.

 

Best regards

[prestashopuser1337]

Ok I solved it now.

 

What I did (in addition to my first post) was I duplicated the carousel module and replace every occurence of 'carousel' with 'secondcarousel' so that it was unique. This was important since the carousel uses an id for displaying the products via javascript.

 

Another alternative would be to rewrite the module so that it can display products on multiple ids, but the duplication seemed more straight forward for me. One advantage of the duplication is that one can set different no. of products to display in each module.

 

I then added the hooks to the install-routine of the second carousel and just installed it as a new module.

 

Maybe this helps somebody somewhere sometime...

Edited June 7, 2017 by prestashopuser1337 (see edit history)