Comments on: Categories for homepage – Free Prestashop Module

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:14:09 +0000

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

By: Csaba

Csaba — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:10:06 +0000

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 );

By: Xkorp

Xkorp — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:05:30 +0000

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 :-)

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:04:34 +0000

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.

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:28:07 +0000

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

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:42:19 +0000

forgot the php bit below

chmod(“homecategories/homecategories.tpl”, 0775);

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:40:55 +0000

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

By: lew

lew — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:49:26 +0000

I’m having the same problem, the category imahes arent being picked up. Was this ever resolved?

Many thanks

By: Barry Walsh

Barry Walsh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:47:33 +0000

Great module but I have one problem, the images aren’t appearing. Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks