Prestashop custom layout for specific category

Question

Can I have a specific category layout for selected categories? The detail page will be the same, I need to get a custom tpl file.

Thanks for suggestions

Answer 1

Pretty easy to do: override the category controller to set the template.

class CategoryController extends CategoryControllerCore {

    // array with the selected categories
    private $customCategories = array(1, 3);

    public function init() {
        parent::init();

        if (in_array($this->category->id, $this->customCategories)) {
            $this->setTemplate(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'category-custom.tpl');
        }
    }

}

Here you wouldn't be able to change the selected categories from the back office, but it would be easy to do with a module.