Magento – products block

Go to “CMS – Manage Pages” and select the page do you want to display the products from the list of pages.

Use next code to display products labeled as “new”:


{{block type="catalog/product_new" name="catalog.product.new" alias="new_products" template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}


Use next code to display all products from catalog:


{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="catalog.product.list" alias="all_products" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}


Use next code to display all products from a specific category:


{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="catalog.product.list" alias="category_products" category_id="4" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}


Magento get all products

Next code is a method to get all product from magento database:


$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$products->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);//enabled
$products->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4); //catalog, search
$products->addAttributeToFilter('type_id', 'simple'); //catalog, search
$products->addAttributeToSelect('*');
$products->addStoreFilter($storeId);
$prodIds = $products->getAllIds();
foreach($prodIds as $productId)
{
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
$product->load($product_id);
}


Magento get products from a specific category

Next code is a sample to extract all products from a specific category:


$prodCat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($catId);
$prodCat = $prodCat->getProductCollection();
foreach( $prodCat->getAllIds() as $prodId)
{
$_product=Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($prodId);
print $_product->getName()."
";
}