Very Specific layout required for home page.

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Grendal
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11 years 2 months ago #156410

-- url of the page with the problem -- : mywebsite.com/mypage
-- HikaShop version -- : latest
-- Joomla version -- : 3.2
-- PHP version -- : irellevant
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : irrelevant

This is the layout im trying to achieve:

I need to set a "show 5 of Xstuff" with a "Browse More" button... The browse more buttons would link to their respective product listing pages.

I am able to "display 5 of X" products on home page using hikashops modules ..., but it simply sucks:

How can I remove the "Pagination" links , and replace them with a browse more button instead.

I do not know Joomla's underlying framework nor do I know the underlying code of hikashop.
( joomla's code is just a clustered mess anyhow )

I would have preferred to custom develop an entire system from scratch, but I am required to use Joomla + Hikashop - and this combination has been giving me headaches.

As far as I could tell ( from Google, searches everywhere ) - there is absolutely no module in existence that displays exactly like this on the home page. I could use some serious help on implementing this, as it seams like I would have to create an entire module from scratch, which I would hate as I absolutely freaking hate Joomla.

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11 years 2 months ago #156445

Hi,

Joomla's code is quite clean compared to some other CMSes code I had to "privilege" to look at before.
But don't worry, there is no need to code anything for what you want to do.

First, you want to create three HikaShop products listing menu items via the Joomla menu manager so that you can display the listing of all the products int he order you want for the button of each of your three areas of your front page.
It's quite easy to do, but we have a tutorial here if you want :
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...d.html#products_menu

Second, you want to create three HikaShop content modules via the Joomla modules manager (or use the existing one if you already have it for each area of your front page.

Third, you want to create a Joomla article where you will use the 'load position' system of Joomla in order to load these three modules in the article : docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_put_a_module_inside_an_article%3F
And you want to add HTML links linking to your products listing menu items that you created on the first step.

Finally, once your article is ready with all the modules and links like you want, simply create a menu item for that Joomla article and set it as the default menu item of your website via the Joomla menu manager.