Emilio, in 1.5 you should put this

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in Design / XML Layout

Am a regular reader of your blog but am commenting for the 1st time..I want to add 10 random products from a specific category lets say “Popular” below my main product on the product view page..am struggling for the last three days…any help wud be greatly appreciated…am using latest Magento lite version that u released as an experiment before

Thank you for the blog!
Probably following code will help someone to show products randomly from a particular category:

We need to write code for home cms like:
{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”50″ template=”catalog/product/list_home.phtml”}}

Code:

<?php
$_productCollection=$this->getLoadedProductCollection();
$categoryID = $this->category_id;
//$categoryID = $this->getCategoryId();
if($categoryID){
  $category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
  $category->load($categoryID); // this is category id
  $collection = $category->getProductCollection();
} else{
  $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
}
Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->prepareProductCollection($collection);
$collection->getSelect()->order('rand()');
$collection->addStoreFilter();
$numProducts = $this->getNumProducts() ? $this->getNumProducts() : 1;
$collection->setPage(1, $numProducts)->load();
$_productCollection = $this->_productCollection = $collection;
?>
<?php if(!$_productCollection->count()): ?>
<div class="note-msg">
    <?php echo $this->__('There are no products matching the selection. Please provide a category ID.') ?>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
  <ul>
	<?php $_collectionSize = $_productCollection->count() ?>
    <?php foreach ($_productCollection as $_product): ?>
		<li>
        <a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">
            <img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(105, 105); ?>" width="105" height="105" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>" />
        </a>
		</li>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

This code displays a single product.

hi,
and for the new produts how i display them randomly??