how to show products order by attribute, Attribute created from admin panel?

Question

I created an attribute sorting order (attribute code : shortorder ) for arrange/sorting(ASC or DESC) the products by adding value to this attribute while adding the products.

In the list.phtml product collections are collect by

$_productCollection=$this->getLoadedProductCollection();.

Is there any way to do this shorting in product view page?

Answer 1

You might have to override the Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List block, specifically, its function _getProductCollection() to implement the necessary filtering.

A proposed override for the function Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List::_getProductCollection:

protected function _getProductCollection()
{ 
    $collection = parent::_getProductCollection();
    $collection->addAttributeToSort('attribute code', 'asc');
    $this->_productCollection = $collection;

    return $this->_productCollection;
}