StudioForty9 Brands

Features

Adds a new product attribute for brands
Adds a new route to display products by brand
Allows for management of brands via an admin interface

Upcoming Features

Multi store
SEO data for each brand

Installation

Composer

Add the package to your require list, here's a sample composer file:

{
  "require": {
    "studioforty9/brands": "dev-master"
  },
  "repositories": [
    { "type": "composer", "url": "http://packages.firegento.com" },
    { "type": "vcs", "url": "http://github.com/studioforty9/brands" }
  ],
  "extra":{
    "magento-root-dir": "htdocs/",
    "magento-force": true,
    "auto-append-gitignore": true,
    "magento-deploystrategy": "copy"
  }
}

Don't forget to set permissions on media/brand to 0777.

Configuration

Once you've got the extension installed, you can configure some defaults via System => Configuration => StudioForty9 => Brands.

You can choose to show/hide breadcrumbs. You can show/hide a link in the top.links block, you can also label that link whatever you want.

You can also set the SEO title, keywords and description for the brands index page.

A new menu item for Brands will be added to the top menu. You can add, edit and delete brands. A product attribute 'brand_id' will automatically be created. You can choose to show the attribute in layered navigation, search, in the product listing etc yourself.

A frontend route will be created to show products by brand.

Contributing

see CONTRIBUTING file

Licence

BSD 3 Clause see LICENCE file

colinmurphy/Brands