Change URL link for CMS Home in Top Menu

[jul_ste]

I've been struggling with a modification on the top menu of a PS 1.5.6 store. We'd like to use the CMS home directory but rather than having "home" link to the CMS home page (/index.php?id_cms_category=1) have it link to the base or index page as the catalog "home" link.

 

Is this possible? I appreciate any assistance you can send my way!

Thanks,

JS

[ibndawood]

Hi,

 

The problem you are facing is you are adding Home from the CMS page. In order to link to your home page you can either use :

 

 

Home from Category like the one below:

 

Or you can create a new Menu Top link like this and then add to the menu:

 

Hope this helps.

[jul_ste]

Thanks, but the category home page drops down to the product categories. We want to have one menu item that links to the index and drops down to the CMS pages.

 

I could put a static home button to link to the index and another that drops to CMS but would rather eliminate the need for two separate menu items.

 

So instead of

 

Home (index)

 - category 1

 - category 2

 - category 3

 

or

Home (cms)

 - cms 1

 - cms 2

 - cms 3

 

We'd like it to list as this:

 

Home (index)

 - cms 1

 - cms 2

 - cms 3

 

Any suggestion on how this might be possible?

thanks again,

js

 

[ibndawood]

Unfortunately it is not possible with default Module. However you can write custom code to achieve this. You want me to suggest the code changes ? You'd be able to do it ?

[ibndawood]

This is how you custom code. In modules/blocktopmenu/blocktopmenu.php look for method private function makeMenu()

 

makeMenu is the method that builds your menu. There is a switch case in that method. Look for 

case 'CMS_CAT':
    $category = new CMSCategory((int)$id, (int)$id_lang);
    if (count($category))
    {
        $this->_menu .= '<li><a href="'.$category->getLink().'">'.$category->name.'</a>';
        $this->getCMSMenuItems($category->id);
        $this->_menu .= '</li>'.PHP_EOL;
    }
break;

The Home CMS category is always 1 so I am going to write a code that will replace the URL of cms_category_1 to shop base url like this :

case 'CMS_CAT':
    $category = new CMSCategory((int)$id, (int)$id_lang);
    if (count($category))
    {
        if($category->id === 1){
	    $this->_menu .= '<li><a href="'.__PS_BASE_URI__.'">'.$category->name.'</a>';
	}else{
	    $this->_menu .= '<li><a href="'.$category->getLink().'">'.$category->name.'</a>';	
	}
	$this->getCMSMenuItems($category->id);
	$this->_menu .= '</li>'.PHP_EOL;
    }
break;

Hope this should work. This is quick fix. If you want to keep the code on upgrades then you have to use Module Overrides. Read this to get an idea : https://gist.github.com/JulienBreux/2287709

[manzotin]

Hi ibndawood

 

I used your code and it worked great! Problem is now i need multiple cms sections on my menu, and i'm forced to this kind of situation:

 

Home (root category, not shown in menu)

• Category1 (must be shown in the menu)

          - page 1

          - page 2

• Category2 (no need to be shown in the menu)

          - page 3 (must be shown as a menu main item)

 

I want my Category1, which has ID=2, to link at homepage. I modified your code in the following way but it didn't worked:

if($category->id === 2)

It should do the trick but it doesn't! Am i missing something?

 

I am working on local so i am afraid i can't link to my site =(

 

Thanks!!

Edited January 7, 2014 by manzotin (see edit history)

[codelicus]

Hi!

Is this possible?

 

cms 

 - category 1

 - category 2

 - category 3

 

thanks for your help!

[sathishinla]

can anyone help me how can i change the home(category=2) url into my shop url..

how i sort defaultly by discount percentage??

[anne81]

Hi ibndawood,

 

I've used your code for 1.6 - thanks for that - and it seems to work succesfully for desktop/laptop but not for mobile devices (ipad). Any suggestions how to adjust that?

 

Thanks!

[Redous]

Hi ibndawood,

 

I've used your code for 1.6 - thanks for that - and it seems to work succesfully for desktop/laptop but not for mobile devices (ipad). Any suggestions how to adjust that?

 

Thanks!

 

Hi,

 

Would you be able to paste your code here so that we can take a look?