Prestashop | Remove transplant restrictions

Question

So, there's a problem - I need to transplant "Categories Block" module to "displayTopColumn" hook (yep, designer put categories list near (on?) slider). But, by default, there is no possibilities to do this. I don't like that awful Prestashop restrictions, so maybe there is solution for this problem - remove those restrictions?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Removing those restrictions would not resolve anything for a simple reason: if you could hook the module blockcategories to displayTopColumn, this module would not know what to display in this hook because there is no hookDisplayTopColumn() function in it.

However, you can modify the module, and add a function to manage this hook.

To do so, open the file blockcategories.php and add the following:

public function hookDisplayTopColumn($params)
{
    // Your code
}

If you want to display here the same content as in the hookLeftColumn hook, you can simply do this:

public function hookDisplayTopColumn($params)
{
    return $this->hookLeftColumn($params);
}

You can also create your own function and template by copying, pasting and modifying the code you can find in the function hookLeftColumn() or in the function hookFooter().