Monthly Archives: July 2011

How to get the newest products of magento current category

Posted on July 24, 2011 by erik

If you ever need listing the newest products of magento current category (or even of a category given by it’s Id, see the code comments) <?php $totalPerPage = ($this->show_total) ? $this->show_total : 9; $visibility = array( Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH, Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_IN_CATALOG );   … Continue reading →

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Get magento page current url

Posted on July 24, 2011 by erik

echo Mage::help(’core/url’)->getCurrentUrl();

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Magento new products

Posted on July 24, 2011 by erik

New products is one of the useful feature required for a magento site. Below is a short example how to have this. You can call this in a cms page. $totalPerPage = ($this->show_total) ? $this->show_total : 9; $visibility = array( … Continue reading →

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Magento query filter by category and attribute

Posted on July 3, 2011 by erik

We know how to show up the products of a category in a cms page. But what if we wanna filter them by an attribute? Here is an example where $category_id is a given category ID, $currentPage the number of … Continue reading →

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Add featured category products to cms home page

Posted on July 2, 2011 by erik

If you have a category with products( like the featured products) you can  include them in a cms page calling the template block  the following way: {{block type=”catalog/product_list” template=”catalog/product/list.phtml” category_id=”5″ column_count=”4″ }} You have to change category_id 5 for your … Continue reading →

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