newproducts block duplication issue

[dave martin]

Hi i have duplicated the newproducts block to show new products from certain categories:

you can see here:

http://www.jewelleryrepublic.co.uk/

I am using the following code to display the blocks (id changes for the cat required etc)

    function hookRightColumn($params)
   {
       global $smarty;
       $currency = new Currency(intval($params['cookie']->id_currency));
       $category = new Category(18, intval($params['cookie']->id_lang));$newProducts = $category->getProducts(intval($params['cookie']->id_lang), 1, 2); 
       $new_products = array();
       if ($newProducts)
           foreach ($newProducts AS $newProduct)
               $new_products[] = $newProduct;

       $smarty->assign(array(
           'new_products' => $new_products,
           'mediumSize' => Image::getSize('medium')));
       return $this->display(__FILE__, 'blocknewproducts3.tpl');
   }

However rather than displaying the latest products it seems to show them based on the item posistion in that category, also is it possible to drill down in to all child categorys?

Version 1.3.2.3

Any ideas?

ta
Dave

[dave martin]

no ideas on how to solve this?