Quay Creative ecommerce solutions has just released the first Prestashop module.. it is absolutely FREE.
This module is to show all main categories (level 1) on your homepage. You can declare number of categories to show. CSS is also provided, however, you can restyle it as desire.
Please follow this link to download – Free prestashop module
Great module but I have one problem, the images aren’t appearing. Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks
I’m having the same problem, the category imahes arent being picked up. Was this ever resolved?
Many thanks
Hey
If your categories images don’t display, try modifying the homecategories.tpl file by changing “category-on-home” to “category” in the following line 12:
getCatImageLink($category.link_rewrite, $category.id_image,’category-on-home’)}” alt=”{$category.name|escape:’htmlall’:'UTF-8′}” />
I found this by looking at what HTML output the homepage has and comparing the image name with the actual image name on the server.
I also had some problems actually editing the file because chmod for this file was 644 and I could not edit it. I used this bit of code in a php file saved in the /modules/ directory.
be sure to set chmod back to 0644 afterwards.
Hope this helps.
Live long and prosper
Hope this helps
forgot the php bit below
chmod(“homecategories/homecategories.tpl”, 0775);
Hi!!
I´ve got a problem: my store is in 3 languages, and my default language is spanish. The problem is that when my store is in spanish my product´s names are in spanish but my category´s names are in english, can you resolve this problem???
Thank you very much in advanced
Irene
Hello, thanks for the great feature.
But is it possible to show the main categories in gridview and not in as a list.
I want 3 or 4 categories on one row and the next on the second row.
Thanks, gr. Mustafa.
I have the same problem as Irene. The category’s names are in english always, and I have 2 languages in the web…I don’t know how to solve it! Can you please give me some advice?? Thanks :-)
If you want to use it with multiple languages, you have to modify the hookHome function in /modules/homecategories/homecategories.php file:
function hookHome($params)
{
global $smarty;
$category = new Category(1);
$subCategories = $category->getSubCategories( (int)$params['cookie']->id_lang );
$nb = intval(Configuration::get(‘HOME_categories_NBR’));
$smarty->assign(array( ‘categoryHome’ => $subCategories ));
return $this->display(__FILE__, ‘homecategories.tpl’);
}
The main modification is in this line:
$subCategories = $category->getSubCategories( (int)$params['cookie']->id_lang );
Hi all,
This is probably a good module but:
1. Actually it is NOT free: when we follow the likns to download it we see that it costs £1.19 tax incl.
2. Nobody tells if it is compatible with last recent Prestashop 1.4+ such as 1.4.5.1…
So I won’t risk any penny for a module that I don’t know if it still works and if it is still supported.
Regards,
Johan