blocktopmenu - direct links only - drop down

[tarmouti]

Hi!

 

I'd like to ask you about creating my own drop down menu with links - without hard-coding it into module files.

 

My store has got only 4-5 products and there's no point in creating subcategory for each of them.

The problem is that I can't create menu like:

Products (drop down menu):

Product 1 - Direct link to the product (not (sub)category)

...

Product X - Direct link to the product (not (sub)category)

 

I know that I can hook the links separately without drop-down menu, but it's waste of space.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

 

 

[PascalVG]

Well, somewhat quick and dirty, you could do this:

 

 

Edit file modules/blocktopmenu/blocktopmenu.php   (Make backup!!)

 

 

Go to function:

   private function makeMenu()

 

Add the red code:   (Sample code from PS 1.6.0.14)

 

private function makeMenu()

{

  $menu_items = $this->getMenuItems();

  $id_lang = (int)$this->context->language->id;

  $id_shop = (int)Shop::getContextShopID();

 

  $post_prd_string = '</ul></a></li>'; // string to close product submenu after last product.

  $last_item_was_prd = false;   // Check if need to create submenu or main menu

 

  foreach ($menu_items as $item)

  {

    if (!$item)

      continue;

 

    preg_match($this->pattern, $item, $value);

    $id = (int)substr($item, strlen($value[1]), strlen($item));

 

 

    if ($last_item_was_prd && substr($item, 0, strlen($value[1])) !='PRD') {  // last product?

      $this->_menu .= $post_prd_string;    // close submenu

      $last_item_was_prd = false;

    }

 

    switch (substr($item, 0, strlen($value[1])))

    {

      case 'CAT':

          $this->_menu .= $this->generateCategoriesMenu(Category::getNestedCategories($id, $id_lang, true, $this->user_groups));

          break;

 

      case 'PRD':

          if (!$last_item_was_prd)          // first product? Add main menu item

            $this->_menu .= '<li><a href ="#" class="">'.$this->l('Products').

                '<ul class="prd_submenu">'.PHP_EOL;

          $last_item_was_prd = true;

 

          $selected = ($this->page_name == 'product' && (Tools::getValue('id_product') == $id)) ? ' class="sfHover"' : '';

          $product = new Product((int)$id, true, (int)$id_lang);

          if (!is_null($product->id))

            $this->_menu .= '<li'.$selected.'><a href="'.Tools::HtmlEntitiesUTF8($product->getLink()).'" title="'.$product->name.'">'.$product->name.'</a></li>'.PHP_EOL;

          break;

 

      case 'CMS':

 

 

 

 

 

Result:

If you add some products to the top hor. menu, like this:

 

The top menu will look like this:

products are grouped in submenu products:

and the second group as well, in a new submenu:

 

 

Hope this helps. If you need some small changes, let me know.

 

pascal.

[tarmouti]

Dear Pascal!

 

Thank you a lot for your reply. I really appreciate your help. It redirects directly to the product page.

 

Is there a chance that future releases of this module will contain this option as built-in?

[PascalVG]

The module is a standard Prestashop module. I'm a moderator at the forum (think 'volunteer'), not directly connected to the Prestashop team. You can request features on their site :-)

 

Cheers,

Pascal