Oct/10
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How to add category description under category
3 Comments · Posted by admin in design, magento
Here is the example:
You can see the example of this menu at http://www.cortevents.com, under furniture catalog. On a left hand side each category item has small text that is being pulled from category description field.
STEP1:
/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Resource/Eav/Mysql4/Category/Tree.php
I’ve inserted following code on the line 234 (_getDefaultCollection function, after addAttributeToSelect(‘name’))
1 | ->addAttributeToSelect('description') |
STEP2:
/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Category.php
I’ve added the following function at the end of the class
1 2 3 | public function getDescription() {
return $this->_getData('description');
} |
STEP3:
/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Navigation.php
I’ve added the following code on line 177
1 2 3 | if ($level == 0) {
$html .= '<span class="category-desc">'.$category->getDescription().'</span>';
} |
OK, We done it.
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JRM · 29/10/2010 at 15:38
Hello,
First of all congratulations for the tutorial.
But I think there must be errors in the description …
I tried to implement and does not work.
I also noticed that the “lines” eg 177 are not right.
Regards
Admin comment by leo · 13/12/2010 at 15:45
Could you tell me which magento version you using?
taha azzabi · 03/10/2011 at 23:29
hello we make that more easy:
just we call:
$layer = Mage::getSingleton(“catalog/layer”);
$_category = $layer->getCurrentCategory();
var_dump($_category->getDescription());