Showing certain products on homepage

[omgzhobbs]

Similar to showing featured products (module), is there a way to show certain categories on on the home page?  Such as a certain brand?

 

Any free modules for this? Or a feature im missing?

[ibndawood]

Hi,

 

If you have a module that displays products from a category/manufacturer etc, you can simply hook it to home. The whole of home page is only hooks (index.tpl). 

[omgzhobbs]

Ace thanks, do you know of any modules which do this?

 

I am unable to find one to just show products from a certain category, only featured (home) or new products.

[ibndawood]

Looks like a good idea to write a module. I can write one and get back to you in few hours ?

[omgzhobbs]

That'd be amazing if you could

[ibndawood]

Something to note here : Home is also a category and products can belong to more than one category. So if you want to add products to home you can actually tag that product to home category itself. That would work.

Edited December 3, 2013 by ibndawood (see edit history)

[omgzhobbs]

Yeah I understand this, but I need a whole new block rather than just the ones in the home cat, as this is used for featured and not select brands etc 

[vekia]

you can duplicate homefeatured module and change  one line:

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

instead of Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory() use category id you want to display

for example, you can create hidden category, attach your product there then

 

voila

[omgzhobbs]

Where do I add the ID?

Like this?

 

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

[vekia]

no no, instead of whole code: Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory() use just category ID number

something like:

$category = new Category(125, (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);

where 125 is a category ID number

[omgzhobbs]

no no, instead of whole code: Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory() use just category ID number

something like:

$category = new Category(125, (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);

where 125 is a category ID number

 

 

Ace worked a charm, since installing the second module though, now all the items on the homepage are aligned to the left?

[ibndawood]

I was going to suggest

 

you can duplicate homefeatured module and change  one line:

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

instead of Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory() use category id you want to display

for example, you can create hidden category, attach your product there then

 

voila

 

I was going to suggest that but I was worried it might confuse. There are few things to note though and if you are a programmer you can look into that :

 

* The class names, try to keep them separate.

*  Line 65 and Line 82 has this configuration value : HOME_FEATURED_NBR. This stores the no of products to be displayed. You might want to use some other name so that it doesn't conflict with the home featured module. Like HOME_CATEGORIES_NBR.

Ace worked a charm, since installing the second module though, now all the items on the homepage are aligned to the left?

 

Do you have a URL so that I can take a look and suggest you what it is ?

[vekia]

Ace worked a charm, since installing the second module though, now all the items on the homepage are aligned to the left?

it is problably realted to css styles, url will be helpful in this case, exactly as ibndawood stated above

[omgzhobbs]

http://www.zappies.com/testdir/zappies-download-13-11-13

[omgzhobbs]

I changed the CSS to have a 2 on the end of each #featured-products_block_center so that it is #featured-products_block_center2

 

This has partly fixed the issue, just now only the new module has everything off to the left and oddly shows 'view' in blue text, which was not there previously.  I am guessing its getting confused with CSS being repeated?  Which is odd, but easily fixable.. just trying to figure out which bit needs to change..

 

Oh also for some reason the first line of products now have no price, while the second line do but its lower down and in red?

Edited December 5, 2013 by omgzhobbs (see edit history)

[vekia]

you have to remove this "view >" from .tpl file or with css styles, method you want to use depends only on you 

[omgzhobbs]

Removing View has brought back the first line of prices, however the prices are still red and the spacing of each product is all out.. cant figure out what could be doing this, just im guessing both modules being there are confusing the css/html in loading..

[omgzhobbs]

Ok, I managed to fix it, basically needed to remove most of the CSS or change values to 0.  Bit odd this one loads the CSS totally different than the other, even though they technically are both the same content in the files..