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

By: carl

carl — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:29:41 +0000

I too have tried to use catalog price rules, but with no luck. it just will not work work. v1.6

As serks said, please elaborate Branko.

Thanks

By: serks

serks — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:25:11 +0000

This doesn’t work for catalog price rule specials.
I dont understand what you mean by this…

“If you now wish to apply Promotion rules to entire “On sale” category, then you simply assign a rule to one item, and all the items assigned to the same “On sale” category (covered by promotion rules) will be automatically listed in the grid.”

Please elaborate on this if you can Branko

Thanks

By: Sinful Thrills

Sinful Thrills — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:41:48 +0000

Surely you have to assign something to the toolbar to keep it in step with the displayed results?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:41:32 +0000

This is really very helpful to all magento developer.
I feel satisfied after radeing that one.

By: shailesh thapa

shailesh thapa — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:09:32 +0000

Hi, i want to make paging on bestselling products without refreshing the pages with help of jquery.Can anyone help me.

Thanks

By: Aydin

Aydin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:24:31 +0000

I am having the same problem as previous post by Roger. I am using the phtml file provided by Branko. It only shows the products that have a special price set individually, but not the ones covered by catalog price rules.

Also running on 1.4.1.1. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Roger How

Roger How — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:35:16 +0000

I can only get this to display products with a special price and not those with a catalog price rule.

ie this part of the statement: $_product->_rule_price !== null isn’t working. If I use it on it’s own I get no products returned even though I have a whole category discounted with a rule.

I’m using Magneto 1.4.1.1 Could that be the problem?

Any idea how I can get this to work?

By: kris gale

kris gale — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:30:07 +0000

didn’t realize you were allowed to access ‘protected’ data members of the product object within template code… i was previously parsing the result of $this->getPriceHtml($_product,true) for instances of class=”price”, “Special Price”, and “As Low As”… $_product->sale_price, $_product->min_price is so much easier!

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?