Adding products to blockcategories module for product page quick and dirty (Prestashop 1.5)

[defuzed]

Warning: I'm terrible at php and really new to prestashop as well, this is in no way a good solution and i CANNOT guarantee either functionality or that it won't break anything anywhere else. This being said, I have seen this asked a bunch of times and never answered, so i hope this can be useful to someone. I needed it for a shop with just a few products, where the customer wasn't satisfied with only the productscategory module way of displaying the products.

 

Adding products to the category-tree-branch for the product page in blockcategories module, quick and dirty:

 

find blockcategories.php in modules/blockcategories and add

 

 if (Tools::isSubmit('id_product')) {

  if (isset($params['category']->id_category))
   $category = $params['category'];

  else
  {
   if (isset($product->id_category_default) AND $product->id_category_default > 1)
 $category = New Category((int)($product->id_category_default));
  }

  if (!Validate::isLoadedObject($product) OR !$product->active)
   return;

  $categoryProducts = $category->getProducts($this->context->language->id, 1, 100); /* 100 products max. */
  $this->smarty->assign(array(
  'categoryProducts' => $categoryProducts));
 }

 

right after

 

$idProduct = (int)(Tools::getValue('id_product'));
 $product = new Product((int)($idProduct));

 

(should be around line 220)

 

then find category-tree-branch.tpl in [YOUR_THEME]/modules/blockcategories and add:

 

{if isset($currentCategoryId) && $node.id == $currentCategoryId && $page_name == 'product'}
 <ul>
  {foreach from=$categoryProducts item='categoryProduct' name=categoryProduct}
   <li><a href="{$link->getProductLink($categoryProduct.id_product, $categoryProduct.link_rewrite, $categoryProduct.category, $categoryProduct.ean13)}" title="{$categoryProduct.name|htmlspecialchars}">{$categoryProduct.name|truncate:30:'...'|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a></li>
  {/foreach}
 </ul>
{/if}

 

right after

 

<a href="{$node.link|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if isset($currentCategoryId) && $node.id == $currentCategoryId}class="selected"{/if} title="{$node.desc|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}">{$node.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>

 

(should be around line 27)

 

Let me know if it works, or what horrible sins i have commited with this

[sinoland]

Hi,

 

Thank you for your tips. But I couldn't find the codes in blockcategories.php for Prestashop versions 1.5.4 and 1.5.5.

 

Found the following codes instead,

 

line 190

$id_product = (int)Tools::getValue('id_product');

 

line 204

$product = new Product($id_product);

 

I'd try to put your codes right after $product = new Product($id_product);. Thank you.

 

Oops, it doesn't work.

 

Regards,

Sinoland

Edited September 26, 2013 by sinoland (see edit history)

[defuzed]

Hi Sinoland,

 

sorry didn't realize they changed the blockcategories module since 1.5.3 (I've been using a modified blockcategories module to avoid having to modify core files, i'll upload this module later this week or over the weekend).

 

In the meantime you can try this: (worked for me on 1.5.5)

 

add the following:

$id_category = (int)Tools::getValue('id_category');
$idProduct = (int)(Tools::getValue('id_product'));
$product = new Product((int)($idProduct));
                
if (Tools::isSubmit('id_product')) {
	if (isset($params['category']->id_category))
		$category = $params['category'];
	else
		{
		if (isset($product->id_category_default) AND $product->id_category_default > 1)
			$category = New Category((int)($product->id_category_default));
		}
			
		if (!Validate::isLoadedObject($product) OR !$product->active) 
			return;

		// Get infos
		$categoryProducts = $category->getProducts($this->context->language->id, 1, 100, 'price'); /* 100 products max. */

		$this->smarty->assign(array('categoryProducts' => $categoryProducts));
}
                
if (Tools::isSubmit('id_category')) {
	$category = new Category((int)($this->context->cookie->last_visited_category));
	// Get infos
	$categoryProducts = $category->getProducts($this->context->language->id, 1, 100, 'price'); 
	$this->smarty->assign(array('categoryProducts' => $categoryProducts));
}

at line 218 of 'blockcategories.php' , so in between the 'if (!$this->isCached('blockcategories.tpl', $this->getCacheId()))' and 'display = ...'

This is definitely not good coding and will probably definitely break the caching for the categories menu ... ( each time i disable a product i have to empty the modules cache folder ) but it works for me. 

I should mention that i haven't tried this with multiple levels of subcategories etc and have a quite limited catalog of only about 50 products. 

You can see it in action by visiting the link in my footer.

Good luck with it, as i said i will upload my module later this week.