Magento 1 - How to check if a product is new

Question

From a quick search the only reference I found was on the Magento forums which is suggesting that you have to write some custom code to check if a product is new.

I would have thought there would be a simple isNew() method on the Mage_Catalog_Model_Product which takes into account the Featured dropdown as well as the Set Product As New From Date and Set Product As New To Date fields - but that doesn't seem to be the case?

Are teh custom codez needed?

Answer 1

You absolutely must NOT convert and validate dates manually, because this can cause timezone issues. Magento has built-in method isStoreDateInInterval() in Mage_Core_Model_Locale class. So you should create helper method which can look like this

function isProductNew(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product $product)
{
    $newsFromDate = $product->getNewsFromDate();
    $newsToDate   = $product->getNewsToDate();
    if (!$newsFromDate && !$newsToDate) {
        return false;
    }
    return Mage::app()->getLocale()
            ->isStoreDateInInterval($product->getStoreId(), $newsFromDate, $newsToDate);
}

More details you can find here http://quicktips.ru/all/check-product-is-new/

Answer 2

There's no single method call. At least I'm not aware of it.

Nevertheless you can always use something like this:

<?php if (date("Y-m-d") >= substr($_product->getNewsFromDate(), 0, 10) && date("Y-m-d") <= substr($_product->getNewsToDate(), 0, 10)) : ?>
...
<?php endif ?>

Sorry I'm not good in PHP date comparison.

Good question by the way.

Answer 3

For reference, here's the helper method that I came up with to check for newness. It supports both the Featured dropdown as well as the dates, and supports either date being empty as well.

public function isNew($product)
{
    if ($product->getData('featured_product')) {
        return true;
    }

    if ($product->getData('news_from_date') == null && $product->getData('news_to_date') == null) {
        return false;
    }

    if ($product->getData('news_from_date') !== null) {
        if (date('Y-m-d', strtotime($product->getData('news_from_date'))) > date('Y-m-d', time())) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    if ($product->getData('news_to_date') !== null) {
        if (date('Y-m-d', strtotime($product->getData('news_to_date'))) < date('Y-m-d', time())) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    return true;
}

UPDATE: Thanks to @Rooooomine for mentioning that this manual date conversion I suggested is a very bad idea due to potential locale issues. Check out Mage::app()->getLocale()->isStoreDateInInterval($product->getStoreId(), $newsFromDate, $newsToDate) instead.

Answer 4

A precision that might be useful to someone. All these answers are using the attribute "news_from_date" but if you want to get the actual date of creation of the product in the database, you should get the "created_at" attribute using the method:

$product->getCreatedAt()

In the project I'm working on, some products might have a value of "news_from_date" different from "created_at". Indeed according to the business rules, a product can be out of stock for a long time and then come back as new products when it comes back in the catalog.

Answer 5

Quick Solution

    <?php
    foreach ($_productCollection as $_product):
    $date = date("Y-m-d 00:00:00");
        $newtodate = $_product['news_to_date'];
        $newfromdate = $_product['news_from_date'];

    if (isset($newfromdate) and isset($newtodate) and $date >= $newfromdate and $date <= $newtodate) 
       {
          echo "Product is new";
        }?>
     <?php endforeach ?>

Answer 6

You can try below code

 $current_date = new DateTime($date); // compare date
 $from_date = new DateTime($this->getData('news_from_date')); // begin date
 $to_date = new DateTime($this->getData('news_to_date')); // end date        
 $new = ($current_date >= $from_date && $current_date <= $to_date);

Where $this is object of Mage_Catalog_Model_Product and you need to load the product if it is not already loaded.