Show only manufacturers per Product category

[Heste Janse van Rensburg]

I'm new to Virtue Mart - I've used a template for my website that came with Virtue Mart 3.  So I would like to see if this will work for me.
On the website I need to show a list of my product categories, and when the user click on a category, it should only show the manufacturers of that product, not the products it self.
In other words, when click on Products / Appliances / Kettles - it should show Manufacturer details 1, 3 and 4  and when click on Products / Appliances / Vacuum cleaners - it should show Manufacturer details 2 and 5

Will it be possible to configure it like that and if so - please guide me how to do the setup/configuration?

Thank you in advance.

[hellorain]

Hello,

Display only manufacturer as per category layout, Need some customization on category page.

Best Regards,
hellorain.

[Heste Janse van Rensburg]

Thank you hellorain
if you say customization on the category page - can I do it in the admin panel - or do you mean hard coding?

[hellorain]

Hi,

Means hard coding, but, also can be done by creating upgrade safe functions in pages over rides.

Best Regards,

[Studio 42]

You mixed something, it's not very clear.
Say you have a category A
You display it.
THis display subcategories + Products.
YOu can after filter the manufacturers.

So your result should be:
You display it.
This display manufacturers only ?

[Heste Janse van Rensburg]

Yes Studio 42,
I want the user to click for example on Appliances / Kettles and then all manufacturers that supply kettles, should be displayed in the results, not the products, only manufacturers.

[technext2k]

You need to modify the code of the module (which shows products) to show manufacturers instead. This cannot be done by simply configuring it as I think so.

[Heste Janse van Rensburg]

Thank you technext2k 

[hellorain]

Hello,

We can help you regarding custom coding.

Best Regards,
hellorain.

[Studio 42]

You need to modify the code of the module (which shows products) to show manufacturers instead. This cannot be done by simply configuring it as I think so.

Sorry but in this case, it's not a module but you need to overide the category layout(s) and if a manufacturer is set, load another file, or add the code to display manufacturer.

The simplified code to display manufacturer is
if($condition){
   echo $this->loadTemplate('manufacturer');
   return;
}
If in your case it's always for the second level of categories, then you can check if the category have a parent category set then load the list of manufacturers.

Another solution is to write a layout and set it in the category that should display manufacturers directly but this need in all case to rewrite the code.