Category description to category list page

Question

How to get category descrption to category list page which lists subcategories. For example I have Shoes-page which lists all subcategorys:

Nike, Adidas, Puma

Now I want to have description text on this Shoes-page like:

Nike - This is description text.
Adidas - This is description text2.
Puma - This is description text3.

At this moment description text is shown inside of Nike page, but how to get it to Shoes-page?

I see in category.tpl file thise:

<?php if ($description) { ?>
<?php echo $description; ?>
<?php } ?>

Which handels description, but do I need to place it somewhere else or what need to be done?

Answer 1

First you need to pass subcategories' description from controller to tpl file,

in catalog\\controller\\product\\category.php

find

'name'  => $result['name'] . ($this->config->get('config_product_count') ? ' (' . $product_total . ')' : ''),

just after this line add the following line

'description' => strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')),

Now in your tpl file that is catalog\\view\\theme\\your_theme\\template\\product\\category.tpl

you have to add <?php echo $category['description'];?> inside the following loop

<?php foreach ($categories as $category) { ?>
  <li><a href="<?php echo $category['href']; ?>"><?php echo $category['name']; ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>

PS Edit your question to inital one, it was more explanatory than it is now