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Hi.

I have a big problem with attributes class engine. I add new attribute called “promotion” and put this attribute into “Default” set. I was added new product with this attribute and here start my problem. I want to display value of this attribute in the list of products. How can I do this ?

I edit this file: app/core/Mage/Catalog/Product.php

and in that file I added new method:

this method I call in file witch show me the list of products: app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml
I added this piece of code:

but I don’t see my value of this attribute but this line of text: “[535,10,,promotion,eav/entity_attribute,eav/entity_attribute_backend_default,text,,,text,promotion,,,0,1,0,1,,1,0,1,1,0,0,0]”

What I have to do for show value of this attribute ?
Help and thanks.

@spider: hi, if your attribute is text type, you can just do

If it is a dropdown, in current release it’s like this:

In next release it will be:

I have text value in database for attribute promotion but this line of code

unfortunetly doesn’t work :/ It shown me nothing.
Is there some different ways to do that ?
This is very important to me.

I have this problem too. I var_dump $_data - Varien_Object field and there is no my attribute. Magento doesn`t select it from db when it create Mage_Catalog_Model_Product object.

Which page and template are we talking about here?

We talking about page witch list products in category

this class is responsible(I supose) for engine of this view: app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product.php
and template file is: app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml

@spider: if you want to add custom attributes to product listing, you will have to add them in the layout xml.

To save time we do not load all the available attributes for all product in the list, only necessary ones (name, image, url_key, etc.)

Edit main.xml, find handles <catalog_category_default> and <catalog_category_layered> and replace in both:

You will need to repeat <action> tag for each additional attribute you wish to see in product list.

Now it works fine.
Very helpful.
Thank You.

Moshe - 22 November 2007 01:17 AM

@spider: if you want to add custom attributes to product listing, you will have to add them in the layout xml.

To save time we do not load all the available attributes for all product in the list, only necessary ones (name, image, url_key, etc.)

Edit main.xml, find handles <catalog_category_default> and <catalog_category_layered> and replace in both:

<block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list"></block>

with:

<block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list">
   <action method="addAttribute"><code>promotion</code></action>
</block>

You will need to repeat <action> tag for each additional attribute you wish to see in product list.

Moshe, can I do the same when using {{block}} tag in my content pages? I’m displaying products attached to root catalog category on homepage (as they are not visible anywhere else, and therefore can be easily used for selected products) using:

I have created additional template list_home.phtml to accomplish my design. What I need is to access thumbnail image in the template. For other category listings I have added:

to catalog.xml in proper places. But how can I do the same for {{block}} tag? I tried using layout update for content page with

But it doesn’t work. Magento shows exception ‘Mage_Core_Exception’ with message ‘Can’t retrieve current category object’ in D:\Praca\www\magento\app\Mage.php:371

Which is theoretically obvious, because none is set - but show_root_category="true" avoids the message in {{Block}} but doesn’t in layout update.

What can I do to access thumbnail image within my template on homepage (CMS page)? I have managed to do it with hacking a core, by adding

to _beforeToHtml() in core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.php - but I don’t find the idea clean. I would love to replace it with something not intruding the core.

Thanks in advance,
Mateusz

Mateusz,

I also need to display custom attributes from a cms page. Did you figure out a way of doing this?

The above solutions didn’t work for me either, /I’m unable to get the manufacturer for the product. I’m trying to list products with “Manufacturer Productname”.

Hi,

this is also very important to me and i tried to reproduce it like Moshe posted:

In Mage/Catalog/Block/Product.php

and replaced in layout/catalog.xml to:

but it wont work. Shows nothing!
pls. help!

In the following bit of code you easily make the mistake of putting the addAttribute action after the autoclosing <block> with the list.phtml template that preceeds it.
In the original code remove the “/” before the “>” and close the block manually after adding the attribute.
This is what it looks like:

I then show the manufacturer in list.phtml like this:

thanks Ben* for your help but it doesnt work.

Im confused about the Product.php. Witch is the right one to do the modification?
Model/Product.php or Block/Product.php?

This is what happens:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getSource() on a non-object in /kunden/205762_85051/webseiten/site/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product.php on line 703

thanks and greets from germany

Hi,

I made the same changes as Ben’s post described and it doesn’t work. I’m using Magento v1.0.

What are the files that I need to modify and what are the exact modifications needed? Can someone provide precise instructions?

Here’s what I did:

1) app / design / frontend / default / default / layout / catalog.xml
In both <catalog_category_default> and <catalog_catagory_layered>
Replace the code within <reference name="content"> and </reference>
With:

2) app / design / frontend / default /default / template / catalog / product / list.phtml
Add:

But I can’t get the custom attribute to show.

Am I missing a modification in another file?

Please advise!

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