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I would like to have a specific product or products show up on an arbitrary page, such as the home page or an about us page.  I need to have all the components show up also, such as the image and the option choices.  I know the product id and can reference it by that.  I have been able to create a product object with

$product_inst = Mage::getModel(’catalog/product’)->load(1234); // 1234 is the product id

however, I am unable to use that to display the data.  With $product_inst, I can determine if the product has options with

if($product_inst->isSuperConfig()) {
// some code
}

However, in order to get the actual HTML that displays the options, I need to call

$this->getChildHtml(’super_config’);

where $this is an object of type Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View.  I do not know how to properly create this object so it is associated with the product in question.  I have followed the inheritance tree and do not see how to set up the object properly.  Is the Object Model for Magento documented somewhere?

Or, am I simply going about this the wrong way?

Thanks much, for what looks like a very impressive system.

@Dementianati: hi, I appologize it took long time to answer, lost this post for a while…

In class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View_Super_Config you can find public function getProduct():

Now you can set product in super configurable block from Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View like this:

Hello
I tried using the code dementianati posted...but by using it my hole sites crashes! (as in displaying a white page without code ....)

Thanks in advice

Hello again...Still blocked with this one…
Isn’t there a way for me to display a product...say, with it’s ID ?
Something like $this->ShowProduct("id")

@Electric-dsctc: well, i don’t see how product ID can benefit you on the frontend, but if you want to show sku:

Moshe thanks, I’ll give that a try!
but FYI ...I meant that I wanted to show the product (name, image, whatever) with some funtion that takes ID as the parameter, or something else as parameter.
This is because I saw that on catalog/product/view.phtml the product is retrieved with “ $_product=$this->getProduct()” . I was looking for something really similar to that but with a given parameter.
Something really similar to what Dementianati posted on the beginning on this post
Thanks, and sorry for my English, can be misleading sometimes

To load a product by id would be still the same as it is in previous posts:

if I use

as posted; I get a truckload of errors and warnings! So I don’t know whats up with that...can’t seem to make it work
I attached the errors just in case.

Thanks again Moshe for your patience.

errors.log  (File Size: 8KB - Downloads: 572)

The simple quotes is the correct way.

Where do you try to put this?

Hi Moshe...thanks a lot for the help!
I am displaying this on a template, more specifically on a sidebar.
I was doing a couple of things wrong.... the site crashed because I tried using “ echo $product “ which was plain dumb . Then I try using $product->toHtml(); which didn’t work either.
Then I get to realised that I was doing all wrong and use the correct methods like getName() or getThumbnailUrl()

Again..thanks a lot for the help...needed to bump my head to the wall a couple of times before I start getting this .

Now.... having this solved :
I saw on the reorder sidebar this “getItemsRandomCollection(number)” . How can I use something similar on my sidebar template?
For example get the collection of products inside a category and then displaying the info for one?

btw - Electric-dsctc was my other account - I forgot my user name so did a new account