Comments on: Some custom Blocks to help you show products

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:02:19 +0000

Does it work on Magento 1.4.2.0 ? THX

By: Name

Name — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:07:18 +0000

fack

By: Name

Name — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:42:57 +0000

Sorry, my bad, the code in nav-static.php should read:

createBlock(’catalog/navigation’);

/* choose whatever category ID you want */
//$block->setCategoryId(3);
$block->setTemplate(’catalog/navigation/top.phtml’);

echo $block->renderView();

By: Nan

Nan — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:41:49 +0000

Thank for the awesome post. I was trying to pull the Magento navigation into a static page external to Magento (some referral forms that wouldn’t render nicely from within Magento). Here’s what worked for me:

- I created a php file I called nav-static.php in the site root
- I placed the following in nav-static.php:
——————————————————
createBlock(’catalog/navigation’);

$block->setTemplate(’catalog/navigation/top.phtml’);

echo $block->renderView();

?>
——————————————————

I then created the actual php page external to magento. This is the page that will be displayed to visitors as the referral form page on the website. I called this page referral-form.php. I first hand-coded the entire static page so that it looks like the magento pages. Then, in the where the main menu should appear on this static page, I added this include – the include calls the nav-static.php file and displays the output in the left-hand menu sidebar:

I’m so relieved that menu updates (new categories and sub-categories added) in Magento will autmatically display in the main menu on my static page.

Job done! Thank you so much, life saver!

By: SEM Truth

SEM Truth — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:43:48 +0000

I have however noticed that when inserting a product list in this manner:

{{block type=”catalog/productlist” categoryid=”35″ template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

…the list of products does not include the category pagination links or what Magento templates seem to refer to as pager.

Within the list.phtml file I notice the call to the toolbar: getToolbarHtml() ?>

And the toolbar does in fact include the pager code. Is there a layout file that needs to be updated?

What is the section that specifically controls a simple product list that you would call from a static block?

Static Blocks don’t necessarily have xml layout updates where you can add the following to insert the page list in the product listing toolbar:

By: Name

Name — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:27:19 +0000

how to unblock this block if I wanted to

By: Nithin Chacko Ninan

Nithin Chacko Ninan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:56:46 +0000

Replace with these lines for the new product – attribute custom module.

->addAttributeToSelect(array(’name’, ‘price’, ’small_image’), ‘inner’)
->addAttributeToSelect(array(’special_price’, ’special_from_date’, ’special_to_date’), ‘left’);

By: Nithin

Nithin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:55:45 +0000

Fatal error: Call to a member function isStatic() on a non-object in D:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Eav\Model\Entity\Collection\Abstract.php on line 373

Replace with these lines for the new product – attribute custom module.

->addAttributeToSelect(array(’name’, ‘price’, ’small_image’), ‘inner’)
->addAttributeToSelect(array(’special_price’, ’special_from_date’, ’special_to_date’), ‘left’);

By: Nithin

Nithin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:52:25 +0000

Replace the line
->addAttributeToSelect(array(’name’, ‘price’, ’small_image’, ’short_description’, ‘description’, ‘author’), ‘inner’)

with
->addAttributeToSelect(array(’name’, ‘price’, ’small_image’, ’short_description’, ‘description’), ‘inner’)

or just remove the
, ‘author’

By: dinesh

dinesh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:36:53 +0000

Thanks buddy …………