Comments on: Featured products on Magento frontpage

By: Hisham

Hisham — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:42:51 +0000

Does this tutorial works with 1.2 ?

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:01:09 +0000

There is an extension for featured products: http://www.magentocommerce.com/module/733/featured-products-by-aheadworks

By: George Lantz

George Lantz — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:42 +0000

I had problems with different store views showing same featured products. I added

->where(’pei.store_id=’ . Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())

to my Featured.php.

Skadoosh! Works now!

Thanks!

By: uniacid

uniacid — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:24:47 +0000

Yes I’ve had the same issue above, I’ve checked the code and also tried to view some other examples but no success at least with this tutorial on Magento 1.1.8

Any Ideas what might be the issue?

By: Mal Payne

Mal Payne — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:30:33 +0000

I too spent hours making sure every bit of code was correct and each file was in the proper place, but still nothing on the home page. Any idea as to what we are missing? I suspect that it is some configuration issue in the admin console (categories maybe?). Can you give us some information on just what needs to be in place for this to work. Thanks!

By: Alex Duffield

Alex Duffield — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:45:31 +0000

Nope.. WP seems to have messed with the code corrections.. just look at those line numbers and make you should be able to see what needs correcting.. assuming you know PHP..

By: Alex Duffield

Alex Duffield — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:42:25 +0000

Running 1.1.6 and got this going no problem with the instructions above.. For those having issues, just check the code in your own files.. for example in step 5 I had to correct all the php open tags, from “< ?php” to “helper(’catalog/image’)” needs to be “$this->helper(’catalog/image’)”
line 22 “&&” needs to be “&&”
line 27 “ ” needs to be “ ”

I hope the doesnt mess up these correction..

I do have a question as well.. How would I ge about getting an RSS feed of the featured products?? Thanks!!

By: CVivek

CVivek — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:25:09 +0000

Hello Everybody,

I have followed this tutorial a couple of times and also use the downloaded zip file but it is not working on magento 1.6 and nothing is appearing on home page!!

Let me know anybody has done it on 1.6

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:51:34 +0000

This is very cool - thanks for taking the time to document this.
I have an issue in that my product is in one category only and I would like it to include the path information as well ie site.com/products/trousers/brown-cool-trousers.html
Do you know if this is possible or if it should do it anyway and I have set it up incorrectly?
Cheers

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:47:41 +0000

Running Magento 1.1.6 and this doesn’t work.

I followed the tutorial exactly, when that didn’t work I downloaded the zipfile mentioned in the comments and used those files. Still nothing.

I gotta say, for all the power of Magento, it has to be one of the biggest hassles to work with.. The fact that it doesn’t already have some sort of featured product capability is highly annoying.