Adding a field in catalog page back office

[vazeem]

How to add extra field in catagories page in back office.And the field should be see in back office catalog->categories page.should be like given picture.

[vekia]

exmaple of adding field: myNewField

add new field to ps_category table myNewField Varchar(50) NULL

in classes/Category.hpp add MyNewFIeld to class definition

    /** @var string our new field*/
    public $myNewField;

and in objectModel::definition:
 

'fields' => array(
            'nleft' =>                array('type' => self::TYPE_INT, 'validate' => 'isUnsignedInt'),
            'myNewField' =>           array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'validate' => 'isCleanHtml'),

then in category controller: controllers/adminCategoriesController.php to $this->fields_list add new array element:
 

        $this->fields_list = array(
            'id_category' => array(
                'title' => $this->l('ID'),
                'align' => 'center',
                'class' => 'fixed-width-xs'
            ),
            'name' => array(
                'title' => $this->l('Name')
            ),
            'myNewField' => array(
            'title' => $this->l('New Field')
            ),

 

[vazeem]

Hi vekia,

Yeah its working now.But i cant see that field in add new category page.Can you explain how can we see the new field in add new category page like name,image,description,meta title...

Edited September 1, 2015 by vazeem (see edit history)