calling the same .tpl file multiple times from a block module.

[Rulian]

hi,

I'd like to split the 'new products' block on my homepage into several smaller blocks, where the products are grouped by categories.

 

Something like:

• New dresses:

Pink dress

Yellow dress

 

• New pants:

Blue pant

Brown pant

 

'dresses' and 'pants' being categories from the BO.

The IDs of the categories I want to display are known and can be hardcoded somewhere (for the moment).

 

I already duplicated the blocknewproducts module.

In this module I call a newly created function from the Product.php file: getNewProductsByCategory($category,...), based on the getNewProducts(...) function.

 

So far, everything's fine, but I'm stuck at the rendering part:

 

In the hookdisplayHomeTabContent function, I coded a foreach loop, iterating on given categories IDs which:

• retrieve the products for the current category and assign them to $this->smarty
• (try to) display blocknewproducts_home.tpl <=== KO, because I don't know how to modify the current code below:

return ($this->display(__FILE__, 'blocknewproducts_home.tpl', $this->getCacheId('blocknewproducts-home')));

into several calls, 1 by category, ie. 1 by foreach iteration in my hookdisplayHomeTabContent function,

 

Maybe, it's not the good way to do such a thing...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

[Rulian]

OK, actually

$this->display(__FILE__, 'blocknewproducts_home.tpl', $this->getCacheId('blocknewproducts-home'))

just return rendered HTML code.

So I just added a $full_render variable and I just append the result of $this->display(...) for each iteration, then I return this variable.