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Hi all,
I had referred to the post
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/4454/
and attempted to use this functionality of displaying products on the home page driven by a custom attribute ‘featured_yn’ which when set for a product will display this on my store home page. The Block class gets instantiated but the template HTML is not rendering :(
Followed the below steps:
1. Create an attribute “featured_yn” and set possible values to be “Yes” and “No”.
2. Attach the attribute to the attributeset.
3. Create the Block class app/code/local/XYZ/Catalog/Block/Product/Featured.php
<?php
class XYZ_Catalog_Block_Product_Featured extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_Abstract
{
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
/* @var $product Mage_Catalog_Model_Product */
$todayDate = $product->getResource()->formatDate(time());
$products = $product->setStoreId($storeId)->getCollection()
->addAttributeToFilter('featured_yn', array('Yes'=>true))
->addAttributeToSelect(array('name', 'price', 'small_image'), 'inner')
->addAttributeToSelect(array('special_price', 'special_from_date', 'special_to_date'), 'left')
;
/* @var $products Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Product_Collection */
Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($products);
Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection($products);
$products->setOrder('hot_deals')->setPageSize(5)->setCurPage(1);
$this->setProductCollection($products);
}
}
4. Create the template file app/design/frontend/xyzInterface/default/template/catalog/product/featured.phtml
<?php
echo 'Test check calling featured products =='.$_products->getSize();
if (($_products = $this->getProductCollection()) && $_products->getSize()): ?>
<div class="home-page-cntr">
<?php $i=0; foreach ($_products->getItems() as $_product): ?>
<?php if ($i>5): continue; endif; ?>
<div class="home-page-item">
<div class="home-page-img">
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">
<img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(65,65); ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>"/>
</a>
</div>
<div class="home-page-txt">
<p><a class="product-name" href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>)"><?php echo $_product->getName() ?></a></p>
<?php echo $this->helper('review/product')->getSummaryHtml($_product, 'short') ?>
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/product')->getPriceHtml($_product) ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php $i++; endforeach; ?>
<?php for($i;$i%5!=0;$i++): ?>
<?php endfor ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
5. Add CSS markup. Added the required CSS markup in boxes.css
/* CUSTOM STYLES */
/* Controls featured items on home page */
.home-page-cntr{
margin: 15px 0 0 0;
font-size: 11px;
}
.home-page-cntr a{
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
}
.home-page-cntr a:hover {
color: #000000;}
.homeContent h3 {
width: 150px;
font-size: 12px;
padding: 2px 5px;
color: #fff;
background-color: #4F3E2E;
}
.home-page-item, .home-page-item1{
float: left;
width: 110px;
height: 120px;
padding: 8px 8px 8px 0;
margin: 5px 5px 10px 0px;
line-height: 16px;
}
.home-page-img{
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid #eee;
width: 100px;
height: 125px;
padding: 2px;
}
.home-page-img:hover {
border: 1px solid #006699;}
.home-page-txt{
font-size: 11px;
color: #003366;
}
6. Update homepage CMS from admin login (CMS->Manage Pages->LayoutUpdate XML)
<reference name="content">
<block type="catalog/product_featured" name="home.catalog.product.featured" alias="product_featured" template="catalog/product/featured.phtml"/>
<block type="reports/product_viewed" name="home.reports.product.viewed" template="reports/home_product_viewed.phtml" after="product_new"/>
</reference>
<reference name="right">
<block type="reports/product_viewed" before="right.permanent.callout" name="left.reports.product.viewed" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml" />
<action method="unsetChild"><name>cart_sidebar</name></action>
<action method="unsetChild"><name>right.poll</name></action>
<action method="unsetChild"><alias>right.reports.product.viewed</alias></action>
<action method="unsetChild"><alias>right.reports.product.compared</alias></action>
</reference>
7. Added block class in custom local module catalog config.xml file (app\code\local\XYZ\Catalog\etc\config.xml)
....
..
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<blocks>
<catalog>
<rewrite>
<product_featured>XYZ_Catalog_Block_Product_Featured</product_featured>
</rewrite>
</catalog>
</blocks>
<global>
..
..
Cache was disabled. The design interface is correctly set to “xyzInterface” in admin configuration for my store.
Can’t think of checking anything else :( ...can someone please help?
Thanks in advance!!!
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