Question

I am using Magento 1.6 to build an e-commerce store. I want to show a widget “Going Fast” which will list the products having less than 10 items in stock/inventory.

I found an extension “Flexible Product” using which you can create a widget based on attribute filtering however I doubt inventory is an attribute so it won’t work to best of my understanding.

Can someone share some insights on how/where to hack the code to show such products which are about to end. If it can be done by adding a CMS page with code then it would be great.

Answer 1

To get a collection of low inventory products you would do something like this.

$productsCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_lowstock_collection');
$productsCollection->filterByIsQtyProductTypes()
    ->useNotifyStockQtyFilter();

//Then do something with them.
echo $productsCollection->getFirstItem()->getName();