Siblings categories

[mia654321]

I'd like to show under category-count siblings subcategories. I have found one solution but it doesn't work for me. 

 

category-count.tpl:

<!-- Subcategories -->
{if isset($subcategories) }
<ul>
{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}
<li>
<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="cat_name">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>
</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>




{else if $category->active}
<ul>
{foreach from=$category_siblings item=siblingcategory}
<li>
{$siblingcategory.name}
</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
{else} ZLE PODMIENKY
{/if}

 

CategoryController:

<?php


class CategoryController extends CategoryControllerCore
{
public function displayContent()
    {
        // Get the global smarty object.
        global $smarty;


        // Get current category's parent.
        $parent_category = new Category($this->category->id_parent, self::$cookie->id_lang);


        // Get parent category's subcategories (which is current category's siblings, including it self).
        $category_siblings = getChildren($parent_category,self::$cookie->id_lang,true);


        /* Assign your siblings array to smarty. */
        $smarty->assign(
            array(
                "category_siblings" => $category_siblings
            )
        );


        /* This we run the normal displayContent, but pass the siblings array to
           category.tpl */
        parent::displayContent();
    }
}

 

[vekia]

{if isset($subcategories) }
<ul>
{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}
<li>
<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="cat_name">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>
</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
{/if}

try to use only thins

after modification don't forget to clear shop cache! (it's better to disable it and to turn force compile on while you work on your template)

[mia654321]

I don't wanna display only subcategories but also siblings on pages which don't have subcategories. I think that I am using bad way to assign variable to the themes/default/categorie-count.tpl.

[mia654321]

I have tried to rename function displayContent() to initContent() and it works!

displayContent() doesn't exist in controllers/front/CategoryController.php so i couldn't override this function.

[stejob]

I really would like to do the same thing. But I can't get it to work.

 

Is there anything else that needs to be done to make this work?

 

 

In controllers/front i already have this CategoryController.php

<?php

class CategoryController extends CategoryControllerCore
{

public function initContent()
	{
		parent::initContent();
		/************************* Images Array ******************************/
		if(method_exists('Product','getProductsImgs'))
		{
		$image_array=array();
		for($i=0;$i<count($this->cat_products);$i++)
		{
			if(isset($this->cat_products[$i]['id_product']))
				$image_array[$this->cat_products[$i]['id_product']]= Product::getProductsImgs($this->cat_products[$i]['id_product']);
		}
		$this->context->smarty->assign('productimg',(isset($image_array) AND $image_array) ? $image_array : NULL);
		}
		/************************* /Images Array ******************************/
		
	}


}

Should I change that some how or should the new CategoryController just be placed in /controllers?

 

Thanks in advance

Edited November 13, 2014 by stejob (see edit history)