Show products in grid

Question

I create my theme for magento and i can't show products in grid mode on my homepage.

I use this to show all products on my homepage but products is in list mode.

{{block type="catalog/product_list_random" name="product_random" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

Here is my catalog.xml and my list.phtml

Can you tell me what i need more to add for this grid mode?

Answer 1

try {{block type="catalog/product_list_random" name="product_random" mode="grid" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

It should work.

Your problem is in view.phtml here:

<?php if($this->getMode()!='grid'): ?>

so what you need is to set $this->getMode() to grid.

If you have a look into the List.php:

public function getMode()
{
    return $this->getChild('toolbar')->getCurrentMode();
}

So you need to pass grid into $toolbar->setData('_current_grid_mode', 'grid') but I have no idea, how to do this.

So I see two possibilities here:

1. You copy the template and remove the list mode (bad idea)
2. You change the template the way, so that the grid mode is the default