How to change things in Admin

[14Steve14]

Just found this thread through a search and it may save me creating a new one.

We wanted to add in a character count when editing things like product title, seo title and meta description. The same with the category page. We created a hook in includes/hooks/admin/category but the only way to show the counts was to actually edit the admin/includes/actions/catalog/edit_category.php and the admin/includes/actions/catalog/views/new_product.php.

With those two files modified we were thinking about whether they could be overridden but cannot find anything using the search feature apart from this thread.

Any help appreciated.

[burt]

Just found this thread through a search and it may save me creating a new one.

We wanted to add in a character count when editing things like product title, seo title and meta description. The same with the category page. We created a hook in includes/hooks/admin/category but the only way to show the counts was to actually edit the admin/includes/actions/catalog/edit_category.php and the admin/includes/actions/catalog/views/new_product.php.

With those two files modified we were thinking about whether they could be overridden but cannot find anything using the search feature apart from this thread.

Any help appreciated.

You did post something similar a while back; https://phoenixcart.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2638

The general idea, as you're using JS to count keystrokes would be to also use JS to place that number somewhere nearby the input where you can see it...

It's interesting and potentially broadly useful - I'll look at doing something for the July co-op.

[14Steve14]

I did post something a while back for what I think was my current site, but in trying to replicate what we currently have onto a new latest test site I got to thinking about this again and I noticed that you wanted something more challenging.

[raiwa]

I used in the admin image support included in the latest kissit image version, a new way (at least for me) to overwrite the default view of the Admin catalog's categories/products listing.

As catalog.php is not yet modernized to easy add custom columns to the listing by hook, before I injected columns by javascript. The other way is to redirect to a renamed copy of catalog.php, duplicating all related action and language files.

As I only needed to modify the default view file, I made a hook which adds the URL parameter "default_images" when no action parameter is set. This loads my modified copy of the view file instead of the default view file.
Hook: includes\hooks\admin\catalog\catMod.php

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class hook_admin_catalog_catMod {
	
	  function listen_injectSiteStart() {
			$GLOBALS['action'] = !Text::is_empty($GLOBALS['action'])? $GLOBALS['action'] : 'default_images';
		}

}

Then in the copy of the core default view file:
admin\includes\actions\catalog\views\default_images.php
I added the custom column(s).

The language constants for the column header(s) can be defined in a language file of the hook:
includes\languages\english\hooks\admin\catalog\catMod.php


Hope it's helpful.