Question

Hi I use a script for showing random products on my homepage, but it doesnt show me price. Where is a problem?

http://magentoabid.blogspot.sk/2012/06/display-random-products-from-category.html

Answer 1

Not sure why that isn’t working, but if you want you try some other solutions

1. http://dx3webs.com/front/2010/10/how-to-create-a-random-featured-product-list-on-home-page-in-magento/

2. Update the code above

   Replace the first ~15 lines with:

   $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($this->getCategoryId());
   $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
   Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->prepareProductCollection($collection);
   $collection->getSelect()->Limit($this->getNumProducts())->order('rand()');
   $collection->addStoreFilter();
   $collection->addCategoryFilter($category);
   //print_r($collection);
   

   Replace :

   <?php for ($i=0; $i < $number_of_products; $i++): ?> 
   

   with :

   <?php foreach($collection as $product) :  ?>  //need to end foreach with <?php endforeach; ?>
   

   Replace things like this :

   $displayed_products[$random_products[$i]]->getName();
   

   With :

   $product->getName();
   

   (find and replace “$displayed_products[$random_products[$i]]” with “$product”)