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Christian Tampa
Christian Tampa

Reputation: 33

Add image to sub-category instead of text link PHP-OPENCART

I am new to php, same with the opencart. I want to add image w/ link instead of the traditional list of links.

http://www.metroingeni.ro/aparatura/cantare-si-sisteme-de-cantarire

Example of where i want to implement.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (1)

fj.agmedia
fj.agmedia

Reputation: 87

Ok, think I understand what you seek.

First you need to find a controller that is responsible for category view, you can find it (I assume it's OC2) in catalog/controller/product/category.php file. Somewhere around line 160 you will see:

$data['categories'][] = array(
    'name' => $result['name'] . ($this->config->get('config_product_count') ? ' (' . $this->model_catalog_product->getTotalProducts($filter_data) . ')' : ''),
    'href' => $this->url->link('product/category', 'path=' . $this->request->get['path'] . '_' . $result['category_id'] . $url)
);

replace it with

$data['categories'][] = array(
    'name' => $result['name'] . ($this->config->get('config_product_count') ? ' (' . $this->model_catalog_product->getTotalProducts($filter_data) . ')' : ''),
    'href' => $this->url->link('product/category', 'path=' . $this->request->get['path'] . '_' . $result['category_id'] . $url),
    'image'=> $result['image']
);

then in your category view, located at catalog/view/theme/default/template/product/category.tpl somewhere around line 35 and 45, you can place the category image which we got from the controller earlier in a form like <?php echo $category['image']; ?>.

<?php echo $category['image']; ?> in your view category.tpl is a relative URL of the image. Put it in your image source attribute. Must be within foreach loop of categories.

Hope this helps, I have not tested this code but it should work.

Default installation of opencart 2 is here assumed, but the concept should apply to any or most themes or extensions.

Upvotes: 1

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