Change Manufacturer List Sort (order by)

[n13design]

Prestashop Documents says that the sort of the manufacturer list can not be changed.  In the classes/manufacturer.php I see that the list is set to sort alphabetically.  I want to sort the list by the number of products associated with each manufacturer.

 

Can I do this in the smarty tags in the manufacturer-list.tpl?  I see $manufacturer.nb_products that contains the number of products for the manufactuers.  Could I add something to this tag to sort?

 

 {foreach from=$manufacturers item=manufacturer name=manufacturers }

 

Or could I change the class or controller files to sort by number of products?

[NamPham]

It's easier to sort by Id_manufacturer or date_upd (ASC or DSC)

You can custome change position very easy.

 

Modify getManufacturers function in class>manufacture.php line 177 (or maybe nearby with other versions)

==> "ORDER BY m.`name` ASC"

[Sharak]

In case anybody is looking to sort manufacturer list on left column in prestashop 1.6 by the highest product count, here's the code to put into /override/modules/blockmanufacturer/blockmanufacturer.php (create if doesn't exist):

class BlockManufacturerOverride extends BlockManufacturer
{
    public function hookLeftColumn($params)
    {
        if (!$this->isCached('blockmanufacturer.tpl', $this->getCacheId())) {
            $manufacturers = Manufacturer::getManufacturers(true);
            if (count($manufacturers)) {
                usort($manufacturers, function ($a, $b) {
                    return strnatcmp(strval($b["nb_products"]), strval($a["nb_products"]));
                });
            }
            foreach ($manufacturers as &$manufacturer) {
                $manufacturer['image'] = $this->context->language->iso_code.'-default';
                if (file_exists(_PS_MANU_IMG_DIR_.$manufacturer['id_manufacturer'].'-'.ImageType::getFormatedName('medium').'.jpg')) {
                    $manufacturer['image'] = $manufacturer['id_manufacturer'];
                }
            }

            $this->smarty->assign(array(
                'manufacturers' => $manufacturers,
                'text_list' => Configuration::get('MANUFACTURER_DISPLAY_TEXT'),
                'text_list_nb' => Configuration::get('MANUFACTURER_DISPLAY_TEXT_NB'),
                'form_list' => Configuration::get('MANUFACTURER_DISPLAY_FORM'),
                'display_link_manufacturer' => Configuration::get('PS_DISPLAY_SUPPLIERS'),
            ));
        }
        return $this->display(__FILE__, 'blockmanufacturer.tpl', $this->getCacheId());
    }
}