Question

I am a bit of a noob at Magento, just started using it. So, what I’m trying to do is put together on a CMS page a simple list (a name – link pair) of all the products from a given category. To act as sort of an index. Inserting this block in my CMS page helped me move forward a bit.

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” name=”home.catalog.product.list”
alias=”products_homepage” category_id=”9″
template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

However, this displays everything about a product (price, picture, add to cart button etc.), plus it only allows for max 30 entries per page.

I just need it to show a simple name – url pair. And if possible, without editing existing files. Any ideas or pointers would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

OK, got this working. The script looks kind of like this (the following only retrieves product names; obviously can be extended):

function getProdList ($catId)
{   
    $categories = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
    $categories->load($catId); // the id of your desired category
    $collection = $categories->getProductCollection()->addAttributeToSelect('name');

    foreach ($collection as $product)
    {
        echo sprintf("%s<br />", $product->getName());
    }
}

When you invoke the function you just pass to it the ID of the category who’s products you wish to view. Create a .phtml file, place it somewhere in your magento templates folder. Then you use a block statement in your CMS page where you want to insert the list:

{{block type="core/template" name="fileNameHere" template="path/to/file.phtml"}}

Thanks to Lucasmus for setting me on the right track. Hope this helps someone out there. Peace!