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Hugoto - 22 July 2009 12:59 PM

fragilem17 - 13 May 2009 01:49 AM

@above ... in version 3.1 you can set the default sort in the backend..

Hi Where is that option?

Thnks

Founded:  System > Configuration > Catalog > Frontend > Product listing sort by

Cheers

With 1.3.2.1 it’s really weird that articles can be sorted by position, name or price in the frontend while by best value, name or price in the backend…

I just want to have my categories sorted by position but previous solutions posted here does not seem to work anymore, I searched the toolbar.php but couldn’t find a line about the default sorting.

Anyone knows how to do this in these last versions of magento ?

Thanks

Thanks for all comments, the most of them help me a lot.

I would like to know if I could create a new atribute (Backend) and then use that attribute to order the products, hope I’ll be able to… in the meantime I will try by myself, if I find out a solution, I’ll post it here.

Regards.

akamyself - 03 August 2009 06:01 AM

With 1.3.2.1 it’s really weird that articles can be sorted by position, name or price in the frontend while by best value, name or price in the backend…

I just want to have my categories sorted by position but previous solutions posted here does not seem to work anymore, I searched the toolbar.php but couldn’t find a line about the default sorting.

Anyone knows how to do this in these last versions of magento ?

Thanks

For what it’s worth, tried the ‘best value’ sorting and it equals sorting by position.

Go figure…

SG1 - 07 August 2009 01:52 AM

Thanks for all comments, the most of them help me a lot.

I would like to know if I could create a new atribute (Backend) and then use that attribute to order the products, hope I’ll be able to… in the meantime I will try by myself, if I find out a solution, I’ll post it here.


Regards.

Yes!!, it’s possible to create a new “attribute”, assign it to one or more “attribute set” and then order product list by that new attribute.  (Magento v1.1.7)

I created a new atrributed called “product_position” through Backend and I did the following modifications in a file: (yes, I know it’s hard coded but it’s only a test)

Modified File: DOCUMENT_ROOT\app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\Block\Product\List.php

Code modified: I just added two new methods in the class: Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List (hard coded):

The next step is to abstract my modifications in order not to hack the code and keep it just in case I upgrade to a new Magento Version , but I don’t know how to (I’m a noob in Magento), any ideas, suggestions or improvements are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

hi there, is there anybody who every change its product list ?
at app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.php, change its _getProductCollection function ??

what I’m doing now is show A-Z products, so I change the code but there still many problems remains. One of them is sort problem, is there anyone who got the same issue ?

my code in _getProductCollection function :

please give me your advice ....

thanks

still waiting for nice suggestion of what I’m doing....

I don’t understand, I only need “ How to display latest added products on my catalog list page ?” that’s all. !

Thank you vlad.ifrim!! I spent hours looking for that

Well, i wanted to thank you for this tip, but i tried to open the file and search for the string to replace it but i could not find it.
i dono if the magento ver. makes a difference
mine is: 1.3.2.3
is there any other way please?
or can i pay someone to fix this for me?

thank you

E9 - 23 September 2009 02:42 AM

Well, i wanted to thank you for this tip, but i tried to open the file and search for the string to replace it but i could not find it.
i dono if the magento ver. makes a difference
mine is: 1.3.2.3
is there any other way please?
or can i pay someone to fix this for me?

thank you

Did you get anyone to help you?  I want to display random products on the category list.  However, the Hack listed above does not seem to apply to version 1.3.2.4.  Can anyone help?

Well so far no one replied yet

but i submitted the request to one of the companies that i bought some plugins from
and i hope that they reply soon

i will keep you posted here in case they replied to me

mean while, have a look at their plugins it is really good to have and use

its here:

http://www.hello-magento.com/extensions-modules-plugins/

if you wanted to buy any of them, just refer my domain: q8shop.biz

they are really a good team of support

thank you

I finally got the reply from the Support team @ http://www.hello-magento.com/

and this was their answer:
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Could you use the code in the content of cms home page:

{{block type="newproducts/newproductstoolbar" number_day="300" name="newproducts_simpletoolbar"
template="hm/newproducts_simpletoolbar.phtml" }}

The number_day =300 it means it will list products in last 300days and sort by date.

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and it works for my website:  http://www.q8shop.biz

you may have a look

E9 Thanks for the reply but what you posted did not help me. I’m looking to list the products in a category randomly. There was a solution for that in this post on page 2 i think. However, with the upgrade to 1.3.2.x it no longer works.  Better stated, I don’t know how to implement it due to the change in the core files.

I need to sort price descending. I changed it to price in admin.

I changed line 97 in Toolbar.php to:

protected $_direction = ‘desc’;

(instead of asc)

Worked nicely.

Thanks for all the previous posts.