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Hi all,

I want to change my home template to actually be one of my category pages.

Now before I go creating a new controller and output all the values into the home.tpl file is there a better more efficient way of doing this?

Thanks,

Ed

Open up and just after on a new line put changing the 20_27 to the correct category path

Jay,

my friend you are a genius!

you probably just saved me a couple of hours of writing a module to output the category listing.

thanks so much!

lol no problem. At the most, you'd just have to duplicate the category controller and view, and then save them in the home controller and view files respectively

that's what I was about to do but your solution works perfectly!

hehe glad its all sorted

ahh
slight snag with this neat little solution

it's messed up the currency switcher.

i assume something in home.php which normally sets the currency session value is no longer getting called as a result of the redirect kicking in.

this would make sense if I was on the home page but doesn't make sense on a category page.

what happens is that the refresh occurs but the session value does not change.

I'm looking into it right now...

so what seems to be happening is that say I'm on the cart page and switch from sterling to euro.... instead of the page refreshing and the currency switching - I get redirected back to my category page that I've set in home.php

I wonder why the cart page (or any other page for that matter) is intercepting a redirect that is set in home.php - surely this line I added would only intercept any requests to home...

strange...

what's also even stranger is that the form redirect is being set correctly on each page

e.g.

<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://localhost.dev/opencart/index.php ... ckout/cart

is where the form redirect is set to go when on the cart page - not the product category page

I thought I answered this. Are you sure you've edited home.php and not header.php by mistake?

Hi Jay,

I thought I had too - but I've double and triple checked - I definitely edited home.php not header.php

very odd

I recreated the issue on a clean install just to be sure aswell...

hmmm - racking my brains and still can't figure this one out - any ideas?

Hi, in opencart 3 it doesnt work, whole page freeze. Please any updated solution?