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Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method)

Last modified by Jelmo on Thu, June 24, 2010 18:02
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Add Home Link to Menu Bar

For the Home link in the menu bar of the main template you can add some code to one of the template files.

Find the file called top.phtml in app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/navigation/ and make the following change:

  1. <div class="header-nav-container">
  2.     <div class="header-nav">
  3.         <h4 class="no-display"><?php echo $this->__('Category Navigation:') ?></h4>
  4.         <ul id="nav">
  5.  
  6.         <!-- HOME BUTTON HACK -->
  7.         <li><a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl('')?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home') ?></a></li>
  8.         <!-- HOME BUTTON HACK -->
  9.  
  10.         <?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories(10) as $_category):?>
  11.             <?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
  12.         <?php endforeach ?>
  13.         </ul>
  14.     </div>
  15.     <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topLeftLinks') ?>
  16. </div>

If you want the home button to behave as te rest (get the active class when activated) change the above code to the following: (beware this is just as an hack as the previous example, but still, it works)

  1. <div class="header-nav-container">
  2.     <div class="header-nav">
  3.         <h4 class="no-display"><?php echo $this->__('Category Navigation:') ?></h4>
  4.         <ul id="nav">
  5.  
  6.     $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/' ? $root = 'active' : $root = '';
  7.  
  8.         <!-- HOME BUTTON HACK -->
  9.         <li class="<?php echo $root ?>"><a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl('')?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home') ?></a></li>
  10.         <!-- HOME BUTTON HACK -->
  11.  
  12.         <?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories(10) as $_category):?>
  13.             <?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
  14.         <?php endforeach ?>
  15.         </ul>
  16.     </div>
  17.     <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topLeftLinks') ?>
  18. </div>
Related Tags:  Link Home Magento 1.5



 

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