featured category on home page

[ada2113]

can you help me with an free module for featured category - on home page?

[vekia]

What you exactly expect?

You want to display featured product from selected category?

[yaumh]

yes, i am looking for one too. To display products from selected category just like homefeatured module. Any ideas pls?

[Oron]

Hello

 

Topic moved to english forum prestashop1.5

[vekia]

yes, i am looking for one too. To display products from selected category just like homefeatured module. Any ideas pls?

 

to achieve what you want - you can edit homefeatured module

[SmartDataSoft]

yes, i am looking for one too. To display products from selected category just like homefeatured module. Any ideas pls?

 

yaumh, we have a module for show category product but that is not free, that is a premium module .

[vekia]

but it's really easy to achieve without additional module :|

 

in the homefeatured.php file you've got something like:

 

$category = new Category(Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory(), (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);

 

put the category ID instead the Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory()

 

for example:

$category = new Category(3, (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);

 

code above displays products from category ID = 3

[Dallerdkj]

Hello.

 

I cant get your code to work. My problem is that Home featured displays even excluded cat from other multi shops. Are you sure your code is right?

[Dallerdkj]

Lol, never mind. It works! ^^

[vekia]

many thanks for information that it works for you

im convinced that this piece of code will be useful for other merchants

 

regards!

[Dallerdkj]

Yes, thanks for sharing. Without it, i would have been lost

 

Its defenetly helpfull

[miriama]

Hi,

thank you for sharing the solution with us.

The code works, but I have another problem: my e-commerce has 2 language, italian and english.

As I select the italian language everyhing is ok, I see the product of the category I choose, instead as I select the english language there is no products in the category.

 

Could you please help me?

 

Thank you in advance,

Regards

Miriam

[vekia]

you mean, that you changed language to english in your front office (you clicked on the english flag) and then - no product appear?

what is your default language in front office?

[miriama]

Hi Vekia,

thanks a lot for your replay.

Yes, I mean if I click on the english flag no product appear in the home feautured module. The default language is italian.

[pralexandre]

Thanks the tip

Long time try found solution for this

[vekia]

your issue, miriama, may be related to the cache in your store. Im not sure at all but you can try to clear cache (remove the files from cache/smarty/cache & from cache/smarty/compile)

[miriama]

Thanks Vekia for your replay.

Unfortunaly I have already tried to clear my cache but it doesn't work anyway.

[q-skins.dk]

but it's really easy to achieve without additional module :|

 

in the homefeatured.php file you've got something like:

 

$category = new Category(Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory(), (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);

put the category ID instead the Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory()

 

for example:

$category = new Category(3, (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);

code above displays products from category ID = 3

 

 

 

Is it possible to do this trick for prestashop 1.4.8?

[vekia]

yes it is, it works very similar, in 1.4 there is no context object only, just use other category id, will work then