Ubercart comes with a catalog that allows to display the different products in categories. This is a pretty nice and convenient way to browse through the different product families but for the product browsing itself, a list is much more easy to go through. The problem with the catalog list / table default display, is that it doesn’t use Views but rather a default call to the ubercart table display.
Fortunately, Ubercart makes it easy to override this default call. For this, one just needs to define a themable function (theme_uc_catalog_products($products)) in template.php in order to make a call to a predefined view with the function views_embed_view.
File template.php:
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<?php
function mythemename_uc_catalog_products($products) {
if (!$products) {
$output .= '<div class="no-products">'. t('No products are available in this category.') .'</div>';
return $output;
}
else {
if (variable_get('uc_catalog_grid_display', FALSE)) {
return theme('uc_catalog_product_grid', $products);
}
else {
$products_id = implode(",", $products);
return views_embed_view('uc_products','page_1', $products_id);
}
}
}
References
As often, great content was available online. Here are some of the resources that I used to achieve using views in the catalog display.
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