Prevent categorize menu from showing up in special category.

[Sean Raviolli]

Hi Everyone,

 

My e-shop is located at: http://autopartsaftermarket.us

 

I want the categories menu to "go away" (not displayed) when I click on specific category , let's say the first one. Any insights for this?

 

I need some kind of "exception" rule. I have a hand on coding so if someone can point me out to the correct direction i can fix this probably by adding an IF ELSE statement.

 

There reason for this is, i want all the products to be under one special category (called ALL) and enable layered navigation only there. This is the nature of our business.

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

PS: please let me know if this is the incorrect section to do this.

[Joel Bardsley]

Hi Anoush,

 

If you wanted to hide the block on all category pages, the easiest is to add an exception to the blockcategories module in Modules > Positions in the admin section.

 

For a specific category, you could add an if statement to header.tpl that adds a class to the body tag (ie .hideCategories) if the $currentCategoryID equals the ones you wanted. Then in global.css add something like:

 

.hideCategories #categories_block_left { display: none; }

 

Hope that helps!

Joel

[Sean Raviolli]

Thanks for the reply. Actually the code I used was this (as of prestashop 1.5.4)

 

{if isset($category->id) && $category->id == 22}
  $(document).ready(function(){
  //$('#categories_block_left').hide();
  $('#top-categ').find('span').text('Make, Model, Year Search');
  });
  {/if}

[Alejandro Fernandez]

Hello Joel and Anoush, or anybody who can give me a hand here, hopefully.

 

I have been searching everywhere how to hide a blockcategory for an specific category, and tried all codes I found, but none of them worked as I wanted.

 

I have 8 category blocks in the left column, I have duplicated one by one to have 8 diferent category menus on the left and each one with its own subcategories.

 

I want to keep all this category blocks in the homepage, but I want all of them to disappear when in a category page, except the module of category I am.

 

This is what I have tried:

 

in modules/blockcategories3/blockcategories3.tpl

 

I added this code at the begining:

 

{if $page_name != 'category' && $id_category == 7}

 

and at the end:

 

{/if}

 

The problem here is that the module blockcategory3 will desapear in every single page.

 

What code I have to add so the module will stay but just for that category page?

 

I have also tried the code on the previous post, in my blockcategories8.tpl:

 

 

{if isset($category->id) && $category->id == 12}

 

{/if}

 

but the module just disappears everywhere?

 

Any help here please? It would be much apreciated. Thanx!!!

[Sean Raviolli]

Hey Maria,

 

Can you post a link to your website?

 

I actually did nothing with blockcategories.tpl -- I changed the code in header.tpl of my theme.

[silentRun]

Thanks for the reply. Actually the code I used was this (as of prestashop 1.5.4)

 {if isset($category->id) && $category->id == 22} $(document).ready(function(){ //$('#categories_block_left').hide(); $('#top-categ').find('span').text('Make, Model, Year Search'); }); {/if} 

 

 

Really nice solution

 

You only forgot to add the <script> tags, so at the end the code will look like this :

 

{if isset($category->id) && $category->id == 22}
  $(document).ready(function(){
  //$('#categories_block_left').hide();
  $('#top-categ').find('span').text('Make, Model, Year Search');
  });
  {/if}

 

 

Add to the header.tpl and it will work

[silentRun]

<p>Sorry, I dont know how to remove the previous post.</p>

<p> </p>

<p>The code will be like this:</p>

<p> </p>

<div><span>

</span>
<div><span>{if isset($category->id) && $category->id == 22}</span></div>
<div><span>  <script></span></div>
<div><span>   $(document).ready(function(){</span></div>
<div><span>   //$('#categories_block_left').hide();</span></div>
<div><span>   $('#top-categ').find('span').text('Make, Model, Year Search');</span></div>
<div><span>   });</span></div>
<div><span></script></span></div>
<div><span>   {/if}</span></div>
<span>

</span></div>