How to hook content from within a module's controller?

[luke.lukas]

Hello,

I know you can use:

public function hookDisplayLeftColumn() {
  return '
 	 abc
  ';
}

In your main module file after registering a hook, but how do you do the exact same thing from within a controller?

My reasoning for wanting this is that I have a new product page, and want to display custom content (categories/filter etc) within the leftcolumn. The controller has all of the queries already loaded for the content in the leftcolumn, and I'd like to not have to call them again for the main file.

 

Thanks,

Luke

[Krystian Podemski]

I think what you want to do is: 

$leftColumn = Hook::exec('displayLeftColumn');

// and there you probably need to pass this to the view :-)

 

[luke.lukas]

2 hours ago, Krystian Podemski said:

I think what you want to do is: 

$leftColumn = Hook::exec('displayLeftColumn');

// and there you probably need to pass this to the view :-)

 

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I believe you're getting and storing the left column in that variable.

What I'd like is to have the text 'abc' sit at the top of the left column, which is set in my module's controller.

 

Thanks,

Luke

Edited December 9, 2021 by luke.lukas (see edit history)

[Krystian Podemski]

It's not working like this. You should hook the module into left column and pass the content to it via hookDisplayLeftColumn