I am simply trying to retrieve a products name as well as other basic information from a product collection in Magento but just get errors or null returned. This is with a view to creating my own featured product block.
I am trying to do this from within the home page (created specifically, rather than using the pre-built 1-column/2-column etc):
app\design\frontend\default\eyt2012\template\page\homepage.phtml
Within my home page, I am loading the collection like so
$category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
$category->load(236);
$_productCollection = $category->getProductCollection();
Then I am borrowing the code within <ul> from list.phtml, which I know works:
app\design\frontend\default\eyt2012\template\catalog\product\list.phtml
to output all the products in a collection in a nice grid format with images, titles and prices.
Altogether I have so far:
<div class="featured-products">
Products of the week
<?php
$category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
$category->load(236);
$_productCollection = $category->getProductCollection();
?>
<ul class="products-grid">
<?php $_collectionSize = $_productCollection->count() ?>
<?php $_columnCount = 5 ?>
<?php
$i=0; foreach ($_productCollection as $_product):
$i++;
?>
<li class="item<?php if(($i-1)%$_columnCount==0): ?> first<?php elseif($i%$_columnCount==0): ?> last<?php endif; ?>">
1
<a
href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>"
title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>"
class="product-image">
<span class="placeholder"></span>
<img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(155); ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" />
</a>
2
<?php if ($_product->getbrands()):?>
<span class="brandname"><?php echo $_product->getAttributeText('brands') ?></span>
<?php endif;?>
3 ! Code currently gets to here before error occurs
<h2 class="product-name"><a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($_product->getName(), null, true) ?>"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getName(), 'name') ?></a></h2>
4
<?php echo $this->getPriceHtml($_product, true) ?>
5
<div class="actions">
<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
<button type="button" title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart') ?>" class="button btn-cart" onclick="setLocation('<?php echo $this->getAddToCartUrl($_product) ?>')"><span><span><?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart') ?></span></span></button>
<?php else: ?>
<p class="availability out-of-stock"><span><?php echo $this->__('Out of stock') ?></span></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</li>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
</div>
which is essentially just the code from list.phtml, except my own product collection is used.
I have put numbers after each block of functionality in the above code to test what is causing the error. Currently it gets to 3 then stops.
Can anyone tell me why the $_product->getName() fails to work, along with the others in that block?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT:
var_dump of $_productCollection
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To get the product name you need to add it to the select:
Also, if you have provided your code in its entirety then you have not initialised the
$_helpervariable which will be throwing an error: