Different views in categories?

[jontesamuelsson]

Hello!
my first post here :-)

I'm new to Prestastore, but i really like it so far :-). Looks and feels great! And i have run OsC, ZenCart, Virtuemart and some more over the years.

Great, Except that i cant choose anything else but list-view for products. :-(

I would like to be able to list the products in list-view, grid-view and even a textrow-view without images. And this should be possible to set as a default value depending on category! Let's say i have a category with cars, that should be in list-view, and another category with aluminium rim that should be grid-view, and maybe a category with light-bulbs hat are so uninteresting and so many items that i dont images at all, just textrow-view. And even let the customers choose for them self if they don't like the default view for that category.

Hope you understand what i i mean :-) (english isn't my primary language)
Can i post this as a feature request? If so, where?

[SPolischook]

Ok, I have the same task.
But I whanna find a better solution. In my table _category I create field 'template' where I will keep the item of template.
I don't whant to find the item of template at 'product-list.tpl', because it would violate MVC pattern. So where and how I find it?
Thanks in advance I really appreciate your support!

[SPolischook]

Ok, I find that for view the products list responded file /themes/prestashop/product-list.tpl
And now question: What Class I must to edit to add value from my table _category which have a new row - 'template' in a product-list.tpl
At finish I must have:

{if $template_of_category == 0}
HTML Template 1
{/if}
{if $template_of_category == 1}
HTML Template 2
{/if}

[SPolischook]

The situation is as follows.
The problem of deriving a template class under the flag should be decided by the conditions in your product-list.tpl:

{if $flag_template == 0}
Template1
{/if}
{if $flag_template == 1}
Template2
{/if}

Now we need to find where to define variable Smarty $flag_template. I looked through the search that the product-list.tpl include only other tpl, ie, nested templates, which complicates the search for the controller. So how to find a controller?