README

This is a utility module that should make building Magento websites a bit easier.

Forked from https://github.com/ho-nl/Ho_Handles. Top work chaps!

Getting started with handles.

The following snippit will remove the product listings from direct children of category id 15, also adds a simple text block to the top of content.

<CATEGORY_15_child>
    <reference name="content">
        <action method="unsetChild">
            <alias>category.products</alias>
        </action>
        <block type="core/text_list" name="test" before="-">
            <block type="core/text" name="benno" output="toHtml">
                <action method="setText">
                    <text>hello</text>
                </action>
            </block>
        </block>
    </reference>
</CATEGORY_15_child>

Add the above snippet to your themes local.xml

Add handles to category page

If you are viewing a category: /products/dvds.html (category id: 5)

You'll get a handle by default: CATEGORY_5

We add the following:

Handle: CATEGORY_2_child_child

Category 2 is the root category for this store, so allows for store specific configuration. If the category path is longer it will show something like CATEGORY_2_child_child_child

Handle: CATEGORY_2_child_dvds

This one is kinda cool, this one allows you have one layout for multiple childcategories. Imagine the following categories:

• /playgroup/books.html
• /kindergarten/books.html
• /elementary/books.html

All these categories will have the CATEGORY_2_child_books handle, so you can all style them the same!

Handle: CATEGORY_3_child

Child of a certain category. If the category path is longer it will show something like CATEGORY_3_child_child.

Handle: CATEGORY_3_dvds

This one probably is kinda useless, but is the current category written in a different notation and the way the module works this one is currenlty automatically added.

Add category handle to product page.

The same as for the category applies, except everything is prefixed with PRODUCT_CATEGORY_.

Add attribute set handle to product page

PRODUCT_ATTRIBUTE_SET_default

For styling based on the attribute set handle.

Add handles to CMS page

If you have the page: customerservice/faq/question_one, you'll get the following handles:

CMS_PAGE_customerservice_child_child
CMS_PAGE_customerservice_faq_child
CMS_PAGE_customerservice_faq_question_one

Thanks

https://github.com/ho-nl/Ho_Handles