Comments on: Magento Sidebar Featured Products

By: zhuang

zhuang — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:24:10 +0000

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!

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:29:02 +0000

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

By: bawigga

bawigga — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:01:32 +0000

Glad this worked for ya!

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 25 May 2011 09:33:21 +0000

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.

By: bawigga

bawigga — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:27:55 +0000

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

By: iain

iain — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:05:19 +0000

Oops – looks like I did that wrong. Sorry.

By: iain

iain — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:04:28 +0000

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
  
  
    

      
	  
          htmlEscape($_product->getName())?>
		  View Item
		  
          
            init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(50, 50); ?>" alt="htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>" title="htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image')) ?>" />

By: iain

iain — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:31:40 +0000

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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By: bawigga

bawigga — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:23:03 +0000

@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

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:25:51 +0000

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.