New page module display products

[MihaiAlex]

Hello,

 

I have a module that creats a new page filled with products.What I need is to display a specific category or specific products.I will attach the code from allproducts.php

 

    <?php

 

    Class testmoduleAllproductsModuleFrontController extends ModuleFrontController

    {

 

 

 

    public function init()

    {

    $this->page_name = 'guestonmischa'; // page_name and body id

    $this->display_column_left = true;

    parent::init();

    }   

 

 

    public function initContent()

    {

    parent::initContent();

 

    $products_count = $this->module->countAllProducts();

    $this->pagination($products_count); // needs to be here, so that page number and products per page are assigned to "p" and "n"

     

    

    $products = Product::getProductsProperties($this->context->language->id, $products_partial);

       

 

         /* Retrieving product images */

 

        foreach ($products as $key => $product) {

        foreach ($products as $key => $product) {

        $products[$key]['id_image'] = Product::getCover($product['id_product'])['id_image'];

    }

    

    }   

 

        $this->context->smarty->assign(array(

        'products' => $products,

        'homeSize' => Image::getSize('home_default')

    ));

 

    $this->setTemplate('allproducts.tpl');

    }   

 

    public function setMedia()

    {

    parent::setMedia();

    $this->addCSS(__PS_BASE_URI__.'modules/'.$this->module->name.'/css/'.$this->module->name.'.css');

     

    }   

 

   

    }

 

Can someone help me to dispaly here a category or a product by ID for example. Thanks!

[vekia]

you can check how homefeatured addon (default one) gets products from "home" category.

then you will be alter code to get products from any other category you want.

[MihaiAlex]

From what I found at this point this line of cod help the module to display all products:

 

$products_partial = Product::getProducts($this->context->language->id, ((int)$this->p - 1) * (int)$this->n, $this->n, 'name', 'asc');

 

I'm wondering if here I can add a code to display Category with ID 4 for example.

[vekia]

you were so close

$category = new Category(4, (int)Context::getContext()->language->id);
$nb = (int)Configuration::get('HOME_FEATURED_NBR');
$products=$category->getProducts((int)Context::getContext()->language->id, 1, ($nb ? $nb : 8), 'position');

[MihaiAlex]

After I add your code I get blamk page.The source code for my module is from here: http://nemops.com/creating-new-pages-in-prestashop/#.U9bIW_l_vff

[MihaiAlex]

I found the solution.I will attach the code if someone will need this kind of option:

 

 public function initContent()

    {

    parent::initContent();

 

    $products_count = $this->module->countAllProducts();

    $this->pagination($products_count); // needs to be here, so that page number and products per page are assigned to "p" and "n"

     

    $products_partial = Product::getProducts($this->context->language->id, ((int)$this->p - 1) * (int)$this->n, $this->n, 'name', 'asc');

    $products = Product::getProductsProperties($this->context->language->id, $products_partial);

    $category = new Category(33, (int)Context::getContext()->shop->getCategory(), (int)Context::getContext()->id_lang);

$nb = (int)(Configuration::get('HOME_FEATURED_NBR'));

$products = $category->getProducts((int)Context::getContext()->language->id, 1, ($nb ? $nb : 10));

       

33 is the ID of category

[vekia]

hello

it's exactly the same code as i suggested

where is the difference? ;-)

[airplanenoise]

i there - seems like this is close to being what I was looking for : trying to include a simple block that shows "new" products from a specific category on the homepage. 

 

I actually need to call it twice : once for category A, and another for category B. What would be ideal, would be to create a module that can have several instances, like a widget block "newest in category", with a hook onto the homepage, that's got an admin backend to select which category to pull from and how many to display. 

 

it's very much like the homefeatured block, so i tried to duplicate it, but i am still not sure i get where/how/when to put what, especially that often in this forum it refers to 1.5 or below and I jumped in on 1.6... too bad, it seems, as a lot of the resources are still for 1.5 and below. 

 

so — long story short : 

 

i want to duplicate the homefeatured block so that it shows latest products in a specific category, and i want to be able to call that block on the homepage only, but twice, once for category A and once for category B... 

 

can someone put me on track, and I will try it myself ? 

 

thanks — 

 

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