In main category, display products separated by subcategory

[Dimi]

Hello,
I am developing an eshop with food and the clients needs to have the following view:
In the main category view, he wnats to view all the products separated in subcategories and if a product has two categories, it should be displayed twice. You can see what I mean in the screenshot I have attached.

The category tree is Deli (main category) -> Salt, Pasta, Bread etc.
The products have subcategories but not the main category.

I am displaying all the products in the category Deli menu item which is set to display the products from the subcategories.

So, the structure I want to have in the Deli page is:
Deli
  ->Subcategory 1 (name and description)
        ->Product
        ->Product
        ->Product
  ->Subcategory 2 (name and description)
        ->Product
        ->Product
        ->Product


I have tried calling the products sublayout inside the categories foreach in the file sublayouts/categorires.php:
On around line 48 foreach ( $categories as $category ) {...}
I have added the following:

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if (!empty($this->products)) {
if($this->fallback){
$p = $this->products;
$this->products = array();
$this->products[0] = $p;
vmdebug('Refallback');
}
echo shopFunctionsF::renderVmSubLayout($this->productsLayout,array('products'=>$this->products,'currency'=>$this->currency,'products_per_row'=>$this->perRow,'showRating'=>$this->showRating));
}

With this code I get a 0 - Using $this when not in object context error. I tried changing $this to $category or $product but nothing happens.

So, what I want to do is:

• Display all the products of the main category, separated in subvcategories
• A product that is is two categories, should be displayed twice - once for each category

Joomla Joomla! 3.9.25
Virtuemart 3.8.4
Php 7.3

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Dimi]

Hello again,
I am trying another way to display the subcategories and their products.

In the category/default.php I wrote the following:

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foreach ( $this->category->children as $category ) {
echo vmText::_($category->category_name);
echo vmText::_($category->category_description);
echo shopFunctionsF::renderVmSubLayout($this->productsLayout,array('products'=>$this->category->children->products,'currency'=>$this->category->children->currency,'products_per_row'=>$this->category->children->perRow,'showRating'=>$this->category->children->showRating));
}


So, my plan is:
1. get the subcategories using a foreach
2. inside the foreach I echo the subcategory name and description - they display correctly
3. for each subcategory get the products sublayout (sublayouts/products.php)

The code creates all the subcategories and brings all the products after each subcategory. So I have All Products * All Subcategories. I'm assuming there is something wrong in the part

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echo shopFunctionsF::renderVmSubLayout($this->productsLayout,array...
Probably $this should be something else but I don't know what. I tried replacing it with $category, $this->category, $this->category->children but nothing happens.

Any ideas?

[pinochico]

You want this?

[Dimi]

Hi pinochico,
Yes, this is exactly what I am looking for.

I just used the code from https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=138904.0 and it works fine but I can't get the products to display twice. Some of the products have two categories (Patsta, Mushrooms) and I need to display them twice.