Archive: catalog category

Hi I have in my header, several calls to Mage to get the catalog categoery model and get a collection of items. My problem is, this seems to make my page twice as slow, even with HTML Block caching turned on in the admin. What I thought I could, was by using: $cache = Mage::getSingleton(‘core/cache’); [...]

I have the following: $products = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’) ->getCollection() ->addAttributeToSort(‘id’, ‘RAND()’) ->addAttributeToSelect(‘small_image’) ->addCategoryFilter(Mage::getModel(‘catalog/category’) ->load($catId)); But I need to order by id RAND(), how can I do this? (The code shows how I’ve tried with no luck) magento get products from category, order by rand() Possibly Related Posts: magento javascript skin path admin vs frontend in layout [...]

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Hi, i’ve been triyng to change the default result page of magento, i want the products grouped by categories, it don’t include the subcategories but the products, the search criteria is the product name, so, i was triyng to use the defalt simple search of magento, untill now no result, maybe i have to override [...]

I have this code in my view.phtml file which displays a list of all the products categories: <?php $catIds = $_product->getCategoryIds(); foreach($catIds as $catId) { $category = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/category’)->load($catId); echo $category->getName(); } ?> Instead of displaying the category list in view.phtml I would like to display it in tabs.phtml. Tabs.phtml displays additional product information at the [...]

by EricO (Posted Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:13:55 GMT)I found a way around the issue with saving on another forum post. In the Magento admin, under System > Cache Management, rebuilding the Flat Catalog Category and Flat Catalog Product fixed that. However, the issue with the links expiring too soon still happens sometimes – even [...]

by EricO (Posted Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:41:53 GMT)I found a solution on another forum post. In the Magento admin, under System > Cache Management, rebuilding the Flat Catalog Category and Catalog Product fixed the problem. http://magento-forum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=349#p1263 Magento Forum Possibly Related Posts: RT @TweetSmarter: 7 Free Tools For Integrating #Twitter With Your WordPress Blog: http://t.co/rZEwfLPx [...]

I have seen in catalog/category/view.phtml the category image url is retrieved by $this->getCurrentCategory()->getImageUrl() somewhere the category is set as current category. I have wasted several hours in finding where & how it is done   but unable to find out. can anyone tell how it is done ? What i need is to show all [...]

I have added an integer attribute to categories by setting up an install script that runs like this: $categoryEntityId = $installer->getEntityTypeId(‘catalog_category’);$installer->addAttribute($categoryEntityId, ’my_attribute’, array(    ’type’ => ’int’,    ’input’ => ’text’,    ’label’ => ’My Attribute’,    ’required’ => ’0′,    ’user_defined’ => ’1′,    )); The attribute shows up fine in the eav_attribute table. However, I can’t figure out how to put data in this attribute from PHP. The following does not add anything to the catalog_category_entity_int table as I would [...]

Hi folks. I have a Magento helper class I wrote that works wonderfully in 1.3. However, we’re working on a new install of 1.4 and filtering by category won’t work for some reason. function __construct() { Mage::app(); $this->model = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’); $this->collection = $this->model->getCollection(); $this->collection->addAttributeToFilter(‘status’, 1);//enabled $this->collection->addAttributeToSelect(‘*’); } function filterByCategoryID($catID) { $this->collection->addCategoryFilter(Mage::getModel(‘catalog/category’)->load($catID)); } I can’t figure [...]