Grid to list - change default products view

2014-04-14 category, grid, list, product

Today I want to show you the easiest way to change default product display method from Grid to List. Tutorial is based on default-bootstrap template (which is default theme) in PrestaShop 1.6. By default in this native prestashop template script displays products listing as grid. You can switch display view to list if you want with button. In this guide i want to show you how to display product view as List by default. Then your customer will be able to switch display method to grid as a second option.

 

How to change default product listing view to list?

grid to list in prestashop 1.6

 

 

Change grid to list

As you probably know - prestashop 1.6 uses bootstrap engine. So, in this case changing default product display method to grid is in this version a bit different than method used in prestashop 1.5. We will change two things. JavaScript file: global.js and also template file which displays products listings: product-list.tpl.

 

Modification of script file

All scripts in default-bootstrap template are stored in /js/ subdirectory of theme root dir. So open file: /themes/default-bootstrap/js/global.js near line 175 there is a function named bindGrid(); by default it looks like:

function bindGrid(){
	var view = $.totalStorage('display');
	if (view && view != 'grid')
		display(view);
	else
		$('.display').find('li#grid').addClass('selected');
	
	$(document).on('click', '#grid', function(e){
		e.preventDefault();
		display('grid');
	});

	$(document).on('click', '#list', function(e){
		e.preventDefault();
		display('list');
	});
}

Change this function to:

function bindGrid(){
	var view = $.totalStorage('display');
	if (view && view != 'list')
	    display(view);
	else {
	    $('.display').find('li#list').addClass('selected');
            display("list");
        }
	
	$(document).on('click', '#grid', function(e){
		e.preventDefault();
		display('grid');
	});

	$(document).on('click', '#list', function(e){
		e.preventDefault();
		display('list');
	});
}

In code above i changed code to generate list display type. By default there was a code to display product list as grid. I changed it to display it as list. Save this file with changes that i provided. now it's time to modify template file.

 

Theme template file modification

Now we have to change default display method in template file: product-list.tpl this file is located in root directory of default-bootstrap theme directory: themes/default-bootstrap/produt-list.tpl. 

 

there is a code like:

<ul{if isset($id) && $id} id="{$id}"{/if} class="product_list grid row{if isset($class) && $class} {$class}{/if}{if isset($active) && $active == 1} active{/if}">

change it to:

<ul{if isset($id) && $id} id="{$id}"{/if} class="product_list list row{if isset($class) && $class} {$class}{/if}{if isset($active) && $active == 1} active{/if}">

In code above i changed default product display method from grid to list (i changed class definition). that's all. Now your product list will be displayed as list, not as grid as it was before by default. If you still see old display method - remember to clear browser cache :)

 

 

author milos myszczuk
Article by Milosz Myszczuk PrestaShop expert, official PrestaShop community moderator. PHP developer, specialist in relative and spatial databases management, GIS Analyst, CEO & founder of VEKIA interactive agency. Read more about VEKIA company
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