Magento Special Price to change grouped.phtml table

Question

I am trying to edit our grouped.phtml table so that when a product has a special price it displays different columns.
I have edited my grouped.phtml page to include these columns but can not work out the correct PHP statements to make them show only when a product has a 'special price'.

I have tried: <?php if($_product->getSpecialPrice() ): ?> and also <?php if($_product->getSpecialPrice()){ ?> but this does not seem to work.

I have also found another post showing how to display an icon for products with special price: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17590849/dsplay-sale-icon-on-special-price-products-in-magento-only-at-homepage-it-is-sh

But again this doesn't not work for me.

Answer 1

Given the stock template:

<?php foreach ($_associatedProducts as $_item): ?>
    <?php $_finalPriceInclTax = $this->helper('tax')->getPrice($_item, $_item->getFinalPrice(), true) ?>
    <tr>
        <td><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_item->getName()) ?></td>
        <?php if ($this->getCanShowProductPrice($_product)): ?>
        <td class="a-right">
            <?php if ($this->getCanShowProductPrice($_item)): ?>
            <?php echo $this->getPriceHtml($_item, true) ?>
            <?php echo $this->getTierPriceHtml($_item) ?>
            <?php endif; ?>
        </td>
        <?php endif; ?>
        <?php if ($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
        <td class="a-center">
        <?php if ($_item->isSaleable()) : ?>
            <input type="text" name="super_group[<?php echo $_item->getId() ?>]" maxlength="12" value="<?php echo $_item->getQty()*1 ?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Qty') ?>" class="input-text qty" />
        <?php else: ?>
            <p class="availability out-of-stock"><span><?php echo $this->__('Out of stock') ?></span></p>
        <?php endif; ?>
        </td>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>

You will need to use $_item->getSpecialPrice() and ensure that special_price is set to show in product listing in attribute management.