Limit new products on homepage

Question

I try to limit the new products on the homepage with the following code:

        <block type="catalog/product_new" template="catalog/product/homepage-new-products.phtml">
            <action method="setProductsCount"><count>2</count></action>
        </block>

Unfortunately this does not work, the setProductsCount is ignored.

Answer 1

Take a look at Limit number of products shown on homepage, list.phtml

{{block type="catalog/product_list" limit="4" category_id="13" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

To accomplish this using layout.xml then use setLimit

<action method="setLimit">4</action>

Eg

<block type="catalog/product_list" template="catalog/product/homepage-new-products.phtml">
    <action method="setLimit">4</action>
</block>

Answer 2

If you look at the _getProductCollection() method in the class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_New you will see that the blocks collection has no way to limit the actual list of items.

It can set the page count, using setProductsCount Theoretically you can use this to limit the result, by not placing a pager as part of the block display, thus only the first page will be shown - the end effect is just a limit of the first page of products.

A while back, I did come up with a away to insert a limit (product_count) to catalog list filters. In my examples I use the CMS {{block}} tags, but it should also work from standard layout directives

You can read about this via my blog entry: http://www.proxiblue.com.au/blog/smarter-cms-category-product-limits/

This is also available as a module via github: https://github.com/ProxiBlue/CatalogListFilters

Answer 3

<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>2</columns></action>
<action method="setProductsCount"><count>2</count></action>

Try it like this

Answer 4

{{block type="catalog/product_new" products_count="2" name="home.catalog.product.new" alias="product_homepage" template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}

Try this one :)

Answer 5

You can add "column_count" to use product limit

{{block type="catalog/product_new" column_count="5" template="catalog/product/new.phtml"}}

Answer 6

You can achieve the same using

$productCollection->setPageSize(2);

in your block class.

Answer 7

setProductsCount and setColumnCount did not do this

setProductsCount is define current perpage collection

and setColumnCount define no of column for collection

you need to limit on collection using action method

 <action method="setLimit"></action>

Answer 8

Try below code to display recent product:-

<?php
                            $allproduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->setOrder('entity_id','desc')->setPageSize(5)->getData();
                            $_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
                            foreach($allproduct as $product){
                            echo '<div class="product_box">';
                            $obj = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
                            $productid = $product['entity_id'];
                            $_product = $obj->load($productid); // Enter your Product Id in $product_id
                            $productName = $_product->getName();
                            $productDescription = $_product->getDescription();
                            $productImage = $_product->getImageUrl();
                            $productUrl = $_product->getProductUrl();
                            $productPrice = $_product->getPrice();
                            $addToCartUrl = Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getAddUrl($_product);
                            echo '<a href="'.$productUrl.'"><img src="'.$productImage.'" alt="Shoes 1" /></a>';
                            echo '<p>"'.$productDescription.'"</p>';
                            echo '<p class="product_price">"'.$productPrice.'"</p>';
                            echo '<a href="'.$productUrl.'" class="detail"></a>';
                            echo "<div class='carousel-title'>";
                            echo $_product->getName();
                            echo "</div>";
                            echo '<a href="'.$addToCartUrl.'" class="addtocart"></a>';
                            echo '</div>';
                            }

                        ?>