Content Module URL

Hi,

The URL shop-publishing/authors is the URL of the menu item authors of the type hikashop category listing and associated with the category authors which is a child of the menu item shop-publishing.
On the other end, the URL shop-publishing/category/listing/12-authors is the URL of the menu item shop-publishing of the type hikashop category listing and associated with your main shop category, with the authors category selected as current category.

Both URLs use different menu items with different things. When HikaShop generates the listing of categories of the shop-publishing menu item, it doesn't know that you have child menu items of that menu for each category of the listing it is displaying so it is using a link which allows it to display the good category while staying on the same menu item.

So to answer your question, the router is the same, however, the non-SEFed URL is different, so the router produce a different URL. Turn off the SEF and you will see how the original URLs are different. On one end you will have a link of the HikaShop joomla menu item of the sub category, and on the other end, you will have a link of the HikaShop joomla menu item of the main category with additional parameters to specify the sub category to display.

There is no need to style around or anticipate.
The structure is complex because it allows you to display different listings of similar elements in different ways.
But if you configure the listings with the same options, they will display identically.
All the listings can be configured via the menu Display>Content modules/menus of HikaShop. As you will see there, most of the options have an "inherit" choice that you can select and in that case, it will use automatically the corresponding option of the Display tab of the configuration.
So for example, if you set the "number of columns" option of the Display tab of the configuration to "4" and empty all the "number of columns" options of your products listing menus/modules, they will all use that 4 columns display. That way, the day you want to change it to a 5 columns display, you just have to change it in the configuration so that it applies to all your products listings.

If you want to manipulate the URL structure you can edit the file components/com_hikashop/router.php

Hi,

The solution is quite simple :

Go here: [link removed]
That will give you a listing of your menus.
There, when you edit one, you will get the options of the categories listing display.
You will also have a link to the options of the products listing display in the "associated modules" option.

If you look at the options of your menus, you will see that one has the option "show image" turned on while the two others have that option turned off. Turn it on for all the menus and you will always see the image.

Hi,

Just arriving in the thread, reading some posts and trying to understand what you want to do exactly and I think that some kind of "mockup" could be useful because, I don't see clearly what you want to do and I am not sure that Nicolas does.

I want to say that "everything" is possible, the most important is knowing what you want and have the time to implement it.
HikaShop is very flexible and thanks to view overrides (and plugins if really not possible using view override) you could customize your store to have the result you expected to.

But for the moment, I can't visualize it.

Regards,

Hi,

Thanks for the summarize.

Your first (working) url have the menu id : 249.
Your second (no working) url have the menu id : 241

If you open these two configurations in the HikaShop backend (Display > content menu) you will see some differences.
If you want to have the same render, you have to put the same configuration for the menu 241 than the menu 249.
This option was the "Show image", that I changed for you.

Kind regards,

Hi,

Yes and I answer you that we can't make support using private message which are used for receiving private information like credentials or private url.
I clearly don't understand anything of your problem and for most I know, Nicolas seems to know what you are expecting.

Our support forum is here to provide a good support service. All our support team is able to see the question and answer them.
Using private message is a wrong and bad way for support. It is hard to work with, we can't know which message we had answered or not, etc.
But it looks like you didn't see my PM (so it give us one more reason to not use PM for making good support).

So as I asked you in my latest message : please explain clearly you problem here.
I asked you some kind of mockup. If you want me to help you, you don't have to use long phrases, I am a developer and long explanations with big phrases have the power to freak me. I prefer visuals
But our support team is not just me, that's why we are a good support team. We are all different with our strong abilities and our weaknesses.

Regards,

There is no option for what you want to do. The display options are based on a per menu basis, and not on a per category basis.
So what you configure a menu to display the image of the current category, when you browse the different levels of the categories (you stay on the same menu and thus) you get the same settings and the image displays all the time.

In your module, you configured it to go to another menu and thus all the links of the module go to another menu that your main menu, and that why you don't get the same display options, even though you're displaying the same category pages.

If you want to change that, it would require to always turn on the display of the images in all your menus, and then modify the code at the beginning of the "listing" file of the "category" view via the menu Display>Views to display or not the image based on the current category.
For example, if you want to display it only for the categories with the ids 11 and 15 you could change the line:

if($this->params->get('show_image') && !empty($this->element->file_path)){

if($this->params->get('show_image') && !empty($this->element->file_path) && in_array($this->element->category_id, array(11,15))){

You could put the images in the description of the categories and turn on the "show description" option of your menus.
That way, if no image is in the description of the category, it won't show anything.

There is no such option in HikaShop.
Nothing is impossible if you code it, but it's not simple to do.