Random products on homefeatured

[AndersHelbo]

Hi

 

I'm running the danish webshop, Kontorgruppen.dk.

 

On the frontpage I would like a function where homefeatured module is added, but the products should be showed random so I do not have to add them to the home-category myself.

 

Is there any way that I can get the module to choose the products automatically?

 

Thanks.

[NemoPS]

Actually, there should be an option to randomize them in the back office. What's your presta version?

[AndersHelbo]

  On 7/1/2015 at 8:36 AM, Nemo1 said:

Actually, there should be an option to randomize them in the back office. What's your presta version?

 

I'm using 1.6.0.13

[NemoPS]

Yeah, in the bo, modules, featured products on the homepage

[AndersHelbo]

  On 7/3/2015 at 8:21 AM, Nemo1 said:

Yeah, in the bo, modules, featured products on the homepage

Well I've tried that but it only shows marked products for the "home"-categori and not randomly from whole catalog?

[NemoPS]

Of course, featured products are only taken from that category

[AndersHelbo]

  On 7/4/2015 at 8:19 AM, Nemo1 said:

Of course, featured products are only taken from that category

I Know

But I'm searching for a module / hack so there will be showed random products on the frontpage of the webshop.

[NemoPS]

Oh, sorry I missed that part
Well I think you should simply take the Category::getProducts method and remove the category = $this->id condition
You can probably clone the homefeatured and do it there

[AndersHelbo]

  On 7/4/2015 at 9:12 AM, Nemo1 said:

Oh, sorry I missed that part

Well I think you should simply take the Category::getProducts method and remove the category = $this->id condition

You can probably clone the homefeatured and do it there

Thanks Nemo1. I will try your suggestion

[Krystian Podemski]

This is not a good idea to show random products from entire catalog, this will be slow as hell unless you create 1h cache or something like this.

[vekia]

new version of the homefeatured module contains option to display products randomly

[NemoPS]

  On 7/1/2015 at 8:36 AM, Nemo1 said:

Actually, there should be an option to randomize them in the back office. What's your presta version?

 

  On 7/5/2015 at 1:51 PM, vekia said:

new version of the homefeatured module contains option to display products randomly

 

As I actually said before.

 

He needs them from the whole catalog

[Daniel Patilea]

Hello!

I developed a module for random products on homepage that might help you, or other people looking for a similar functionality.

You can check it here.

It also has:

• a special link which opens a random product page each time;
• a dedicated page that displays random products on each page refresh.

Edited February 26 by Daniel Patilea (see edit history)

[sneko]

@Daniel Patilea do you have a direct link to your module please? Is it named "Random products PRO" on another store?

[Daniel Patilea]

  On 2/26/2025 at 9:22 AM, sneko said:

@Daniel Patilea do you have a direct link to your module please? Is it named "Random products PRO" on another store?

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Here it is: https://weblir.com/front-office-features/46-random-products-pro-with-link-block-and-page.html