Add New Tab in Category Page in Magento 1 admin panel

Add New Tab in category in Magento 1 admin panel

Today we will see how to add new tab in category in Magento 1 admin panel.

There are 2 ways of doing so. We can always override this core magento block file Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Category_Tabs. But this way is not very efficient. In that block file we can see a dispatch event adminhtml_catalog_category_tabs. This event can be used to add tabs in this manner-

In config.xml file

<global>
    <events>
        <adminhtml_catalog_category_tabs>
            <observers>
                <Webkul_Module_Model_Observer>
                    <type>singleton</type>
                    <class>Webkul_Module_Model_Observer</class>
                    <method>newTab</method>
                </Webkul_Module_Model_Observer>
            </observers>
        </adminhtml_catalog_category_tabs>
    </events>
</global>

Next in the above mentioned Observer.php file

public function newTab($observer)
{
    $tabs = $observer->getTabs();
    $tabs->addTab('customtab', array(
        'label'     => Mage::helper('module')->__('Custom Tab'),
        'content'   => "This is a custom tab"
    ));
}

This will give us a new custom tab

That’s it.

Happy coding 🙂