Adding an image only if tier price is shown

Question

I have a table which show the associated products. Some of these products have special tier price (buy 10 and get 10% off). I want to display a sale image if a tier price is shown however i am not very experienced with php so i am struggling a bit.

I tried

    <td class="a-left">
        <?php if ($this->getCanShowProductPrice($_item)): ?>
        <?php echo $this->getPriceHtml($_item, true) ?>
        <br>
        <?php echo $this->getTierPriceHtml($_item)?> 
        <img src="/skin/frontend/base/default/images/low_price.png" alt="low price icon">
        <?php endif; ?>
    </td>

But that just show the icon on every product even without a tier price. So i figured i would need an IF statement to check if the product has a tier price and if true then display the image. So i tried this.

<td class="a-left">
                <?php if ($this->getCanShowProductPrice($_item)): ?>
                <?php echo $this->getPriceHtml($_item, true) ?>
                <br>
                <?php echo $this->getTierPriceHtml($_item)?> 
                <?php if ($this->getTierPriceHTML = True): ?>
                <img src="/skin/frontend/base/default/images/low_price.png" alt="low price icon"> <?php endif; ?>
                <?php endif; ?>
            </td>

But that just had exactly the same outcome (image displayed on all products). I am not sure what else to try so if you could help it would be brilliant.

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

If $_item is a loaded product then use:

<?php if ( $_item->getTierPrice()): ?>
   <img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/low_price.png');?>" alt="low price icon">
<?php endif; ?>

and if $_item is not a fully loaded then use:

<?php 
   $_product =  $_item->getProduct(); 
   // OR
  // $_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_item->getProductId());
   // Use whichever works for you.
 if ( $_product->getTierPrice()): ?>
   <img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/low_price.png');?>" alt="low price icon">
<?php endif; ?>

also consider how the image url is obtained from skin folder.