Blocklayered modification for manufacturer meta_title

[mpatzekov]

Hi guys,

 

Does anyone have a clue how can I modify the blocklayered module, so it can display manufacturer's meta_title instead of the name? I think that this will be very userful not only for me. For example, in other smarty templates I can do the following thing: 

{if isset($manufacturer.meta_title) AND $manufacturer.meta_title}
{$manufacturer.meta_title|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}                                 
{else}
{$manufacturer.name|truncate:60:'...'|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}    
{/if}   

This is the perfect scenario - if the meta title is set, show it. If it is not set, show the name. Of course, there was a modification in the clasess/Manufacturer.php so that the meta_title can be extracted from the DB.

 

But how can this functionality be applied for the blocklayered module? I see that in the tpl files you can hardly do anything like the mentioned above code, so I guess there should be some modifications in /modules/blocklayered/blocklayered.php . 

I would really appreciate it if someone can help me figure this out.

 

Thanks for the info in advance!

 

Regards,

Martin

Edited October 3, 2017 by mpatzekov (see edit history)