View product in frontend from Magento admin

15th NOV 2011 | Posted by Ivica Tadic in Administration, Magento, Products

When you are editing some product in Magento admin and want to check it out in frontend of your Magento project, how do you find this particular product? Do you search for it, navigate to it using product url key or just browse to it? Well, however you do it, I’m going to give you the easiest way to get to your desired product in the frontend – view product link.

Here’s an extremely lightweight Magento extension which will provide you with a simple view product link next to a product name, in Magento admin. It will point to a product view page in the frontend of your Magento project. Simple and easy.

https://github.com/ivicatadic/Tadic_AVP
or for donwload
Tadic_AVP

All you have to do is copy the content of Tadic_AVP extension (app folder) to a root folder of your Magento project – and that’s it. I hope this simple extension will prove to be useful to you.
Thanks to Branko Ajzele for an idea.

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Ivica Tadic

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Ivica is a back-end Magento developer with a prominent goal towards the innovative and sustainable application development.

Discussion 14 Comments

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Jonathan

17-11-2011 at 2:42 | #

Great idea, but it doesn’t take into account a custom URL for the product, so I get a 404 when I click it.
jrosell

18-11-2011 at 10:54 | #

I think that it would we wonderful that you can see products “No visible individually” or add a new option in visibility or let user being capable to see not habilited products…
MagePsycho

18-11-2011 at 20:20 | #

Simply the best. Can you extend this extension so that there is preview for following pages too:
- Categories
- CMS Pages
- Homepage (link somewhere near logout)

Keep up your good work!
Rob

08-12-2011 at 10:09 | #

Works great. Only thing I had to change for use in Magento 1.3.4.2 was:

$url = $this->getProduct()->getUrlInStore();

$url = $this->getProduct()->getProductUrl();
Raul Sanchez

30-12-2011 at 12:16 | #

Working with different stores & language codes (such as /en or /es) added to URLs seems to break this great extension…

getUrlInStore() gets Admin url, instead of the appropiate Front url… any ideas to fix this?
Raul Sanchez

30-12-2011 at 13:41 | #
I am pretty sure there should be a better way to do this, meanwhile…

I’ve fixed it changing…
```
$url = $this->getProduct()->getUrlInStore();
```
with…
```
$url = Mage::app()->getDefaultStoreView()->getBaseUrl().$this->getProduct()->getUrlPath();
```
Regards
Nick

30-12-2011 at 17:48 | #

I am using this on our store right now. I used Raul’s suggestion and it is working just great using the URL Path. Thanks for the great extension!
Scott

10-03-2012 at 10:10 | #

Works great.
I owe you 10 minutes of every day I work !
alok

28-04-2012 at 12:02 | #

i have created some simple products in the admin panel of my magento site..but i don’t know the exact procedure of displaying them in the frontend..

..can anyone help me out please..?
Zorro

10-08-2012 at 10:55 | #

Yes i got solution .thax
Dan

06-12-2012 at 23:09 | #

Thanks much! Raul’s fork works great, based off your work!
magecoders

08-03-2013 at 12:25 | #

Can we put custom URL to see product preview in frontend from admin section ?

Which can be accessible for admin user only.
Stefan

23-04-2013 at 13:11 | #

We have coded an own Product Preview extension for Magento. Futhermore you can preview CMS Pages too. You don’t have to activate the products and cms pages, so your customers and google can’t see them. For all Seos, you see the real product url in frontend, like google and your customers did.

Try it.
yans

10-05-2013 at 2:21 | #

https://github.com/ivicatadic/Tadic_AVP

+

Raul’s modification

=

working on Magento 1.7.0.2

thanks bru
(pssttt it’s free :p)