Brian Wigginton Lab and Nerdery

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   Andy
   February 26th, 2010 - 22:25

   Thanks! This is great. I would like to add several featured products on the same page. My solution has been to just copy and paste the above code in the same .phtml file. It works, but I often end up with the same featured product being displayed. Is there a better way? Or a way to ensure different featured products will appear? If so, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks agian.

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     bawigga
     March 14th, 2010 - 10:23

     @Andy, I think what you would want to do is remove the product (something like unset($_product[YOUR_RANDOM_ARRAY_INDEX]) ) from the $_product array after you’ve added it to your featured product list. That way you can prevent duplicates from being on the same page. Hope this helps, if you haven’t already figured it out

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   iain
   November 6th, 2010 - 21:31

   This is a great bit of code – thanks for taking the time. I have a featured product promotion working for my homepage (I disabled the random aspect). However, I would like to show multiple products from the same category but can’t work out how to tweak the code to make this happen. Is there an easy fix? Thanks once again for the above code.
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   iain
   November 7th, 2010 - 01:04

   Worked it out. It’s basically a tweak of the above code.

   Inserted a ‘foreach’ call after the beginning of the unordered list and ended it directly after the end.

   I now have all items in a ‘featured’ category listed in the sidebar (currently 5 items but can be more or less).

   addAttributeToSelect(array('name', 'price', 'small_image'), 'inner')
   ->addCategoryFilter(Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id));
   ?>

   count()): ?>

   Featured Products

   <a href="getProductUrl() ?>" title="htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>">htmlEscape($_product->getName())?>
   <span class="view-item-button" href="getProductUrl() ?>" title="htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">View Item

   <a href="getProductUrl() ?>" title="htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>">
   <img class="product-image" src="helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(50, 50); ?>" alt="htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>" title="htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>" />

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   iain
   November 7th, 2010 - 01:05

   Oops – looks like I did that wrong. Sorry.

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     bawigga
     November 7th, 2010 - 18:27

     Glad you got it figured out, thanks for posting back here with the followups!

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   Martijn
   May 25th, 2011 - 03:33

   Thanks for the code ! I used this to create a random product display in the sidebar. Works really nice, just needed some tiny changes to make it work in a multiple language website.

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     bawigga
     May 26th, 2011 - 23:01

     Glad this worked for ya!

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   John
   August 11th, 2011 - 08:29

   I need help How to display 3 products, no only one?

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   zhuang
   October 6th, 2011 - 09:24

   This artical is very useful,I have test the module,it is good.But I have an issue,I find there is only one product that display in the frontend,and in the code I can’t set the number of products that I want to display.I am a new magenter,how should I do?Thank you!

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   Sevs
   June 21st, 2012 - 20:33

   I tried the codes above, the strange thing is I can’t see the featured products anywhere. >.<

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   Ralf
   August 30th, 2012 - 08:57

   Does this piece of code still work?
   I don’t understand where to insert it in the page.xml file.

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    Ralf
    August 30th, 2012 - 08:59

    Does this piece of code still work?
    I do not understand on what place to insert the code in the page.xml file.

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      Gen
      March 15th, 2013 - 03:39

      This is very helpful. Thank you. I’m finding it works for adding just one featured product.

      I am using Magento 1.7.

      I added:

      to catalog.xml around line 60 between tags.

      And then I saved the provided template code in a file located in: catalog/product/random.phtml and it works perfectly.

      To get more featured products displaying in my right sidebar I copied:

      and pasted it twice into catalog.xml. (I’m not sure if this is a good fix in the long run, I’ll have to see how it goes.)

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    Marco
    March 26th, 2013 - 03:08

    It worked on Magento ver. 1.7.0.2! thank you!

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