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Hello, I’ve read that this code:

will display products from that category, if you put it in CMS, but how to pull out random products from random categories?

Thank you

While this isn’t “random” it will get you a change of products on the homepage.

If you have info on your current home page under CMS collect it all.. save it to a homepage static block.

Make a homepage category under your Root Category, assign the url: home , this will take over your current home page.

Assign the homepage static block with the: products and static block

Apply w/e products you want into the homepage category and you can move around the simple/configurable/grouped products as needed as highlights.

You get the same “effect.”

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IMO ... having something like:

{{block type="catalog/product_list" category_id="1" category_id="4" random_id="1-100" display_results="{{product_number=’$number’}}" }}
Arg 1) - view type
where: catalog/product_list == list or grid view
Arg 2) - item type
where: category_id == argument of what category to draw items from
where: cateogry_id == a secondary master category to draw items from
or
where: random_id == random call with a range of product id if present to call from
Arg 3) - item amount
where: display_results == how many items to list

Would be nice.
~Josh

Try this:

We tried this, it’s ok but 5 products are always displayed, although we set the num_products parameter to 1, 2, or 4.....

@PitchOu: there’s no 5 hardcoded anywhere, so it’s hard to imagine why this would happen.. what about without num_products parameter at all?

Hi, I have the same problem. Without num_products parameter, it shows all (for example 8 products that are the whole shopping now), and if I put the parameter, with any number it shows all too.

Thanks
Andrea

Need cache update ?

I tried to refresh the cache but it didn’t solve the problem.

Hi, I have the same problem.
With the type="catalog/product_list_random" seems like the “num_product” parameter does not work.
Also, if I try to filter by category with category_id="someid" , doesn’t seem to filter by that either.

Yep strange problem with product number… anyone figured that out?

anything...?

I tried this code too :

The good things are that : first, it effectivly does a random on products. Second : the num_products parameter is correctly sets and passes to the setPage() function. But obviously, this function doesn’t take care of…

If anyone could explain me…

I tried this code:

It did not display anything.  No products, no error, just the standard home page with no products.  Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

Ok, I am starting to get the hang of this.

This code gives me the home page as per the demo site:

So, I opened up the home.phtml template and I see it has hard-coded products.  So I created my own theme and copied home.phtml, and modified it so that it was more like list.phtml.

I also changed the type to product_list_random and removed category_id so that I could see random items.

I am still not sure how to limit the items, other than something dodgey in the template like if($i>X).

In any case, this is looking really good.  Can’t wait to see some more documentation and examples.

Here is the code i hacked up for the home page listing incase anybody cares to try it:

On fresh 1.0 stable install, I am getting this error, on that code:

any help? :(