Comments on: More Flexible Approach for Listing Sale Products in Magento

By: Toby Hemmerling

Toby Hemmerling — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:43:42 +0000

PS: @Branko:

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

It would be very helpful if you indicated which characters/tags are allowed in your comments or how to post code.

By: Toby Hemmerling

Toby Hemmerling — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:41:06 +0000

Still no luck. Every line – except the path/to/template.phtml – should be enclosed in xml tags:
reference name=”product_list”
action method=”setTemplate”
template
catalog/product/list_sale.phtml
/template
/action
/reference

By: Toby Hemmerling

Toby Hemmerling — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:37:17 +0000

Oops, the comment system didn’t like my code snippet. 2nd try:


  catalog/product/list_sale.phtml

By: Toby Hemmerling

Toby Hemmerling — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:36:19 +0000

@Marting and @Tony:

You have to tell Magento to use your new template, so what you want to place in the Custom Layout field is:

catalog/product/onsale_list.phtml

By: Jakub Milata

Jakub Milata — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:20:39 +0000

Hi. It is possible to put it just to CMS page like this:
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” name=”specials” as=”specials” template=”templatename.phtml”}}

but how can I handle number of products per page?
When I normally have 30 products pre page and 20 has no special price the result will show only 10 products. The worse thing is that the number of products is on every page different.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:05:19 +0000

I’ve tried to follow your instructions and am running into the same problem of assigning the new onsale_list.phtml file to the category. I changed the code in the page to see if the page is called, but it still displays the list.phtml file.

Please elaborate. Thanks.

By: Julien

Julien — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:30:34 +0000

Hi,

Good article but is it possible to have same behavior without create an “On Sale” category, just to put a block in a CMS page which is listing all products with a special price ?

Thanks.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:20:48 +0000

Hi, thanks for the article. I don’t understand how adding:

product_list_toolbar

to the custom layout calls up the file onsale_list.phtml. Could you please help?