Move category description to the sidebar

[rare]

Hi all

 

i've been struggeling with this issue for some days now and i cant seem to figure it out.

hope there is someone with a solution here...

 

what i want is to "simply" move my category description to the sidebar right under the category block

 

i figured the best way to do this is to create a module that can print: {$category->description}

however im not good with smarty so this simple task turns out to be very hard lol

 

Am i doing this right ? can someone point me in the right direction ?

any help will be much appreciated

 

greetings

[gabdara]

Creating a module for this is the right way to do it.

In your module install() function add $this->registerHook('displayRightColumn'); to transplant the module on the right sidebar.

 

Create the function that will run on that hook:

public function hookDisplayRightColumn($params) {
    $this->context->smarty->assign('category_description', $this->context->controller->getCategory()->description);

    return $this->display(__FILE__, 'displayRightColumn.tpl');
}

This function assigns the smarty variable $category_description and displays file displayRightColumn.tpl.

In YOUR_MODULE/views/templates/hook create file displayRightColumn.tpl and add the smarty variable:

{$category_description} 

Edited August 10, 2015 by gabdara (see edit history)

[rare]

Damn.. wish i made this post sooner

 

Module is up and running

THANKS SO MUCH gabdara !

[fredecs]

I've made a module: https://github.com/fredec/prestashop-leftcategorydescription