PHP & HTML in Product Description

[andyh2003]

Hi,

 

Can anyone help?

 

Im creating a car parts site , which has makes/models of vehicles set up as categories and sub categories.

 

I would like to be able to add PHP/HTML into the product description to pull info from an MySQL Table into the description, specific info to the category.

 

I can create the SQL Statement, but need to know how to get the current page category ID and then how to include this into the description page? ive tried HTML tags, but they come out as text....

 

is what i want to do acheiveable?

 

 

 

any help would be great!

[bellini13]

you would have to alter the ProductController to perform the mysql query and place the contents into a smarty variable.

then you would alter product template so that it would use the smarty variable.

[andyh2003]

you would have to alter the ProductController to perform the mysql query and place the contents into a smarty variable.

then you would alter product template so that it would use the smarty variable.

 

HI Bellini,

 

can you give me an indication how difficult this would be to do?

 

Any suggested reading/examples of this ?

[bellini13]

if you are familiar with php coding it should not be too difficult. have you made any other coding changes in prestashop before?

[SonnyBoyII]

try this: http://www.jellygnite.com.au/blog/index.php/archive/update-display-html-in-prestashop-category-description-v-1-4/

[Dh42]

As for the php, you would have to turn php on in the smarty compiler. By default it is off.