How to add new products block to the product view page using local.xml

Question

I'm trying to add a new products block to the product view pages, I have several products marked as new & they DO show up on the homepage, for some reason they won't display on the individual product pages.

here is what I have in my local.xml

<catalog_product_view>

        <reference name="root">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
        </reference>

        <reference name="content">

        <block type="catalog/product_new" name="product_list_popular" alias="product_list_popular" template="catalog/product/product_list_popular.phtml">
            <action method="addPriceBlockType">
                <type>bundle</type>
                <block>bundle/catalog_product_price</block>
                <template>bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml</template>
            </action>
            <action method="setProductsCount"><count>8</count></action>
        </block>

        </reference>


    </catalog_product_view>

I have tried this in the content reference and by adding

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_list_popular') ?>

to the 1column template [and removing the reference from local.xml] - niether of these work.

what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

try do some thing like this

in your xml add code

<catalog_product_view>
    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate">
            <template>page/1column.phtml</template>
        </action>
    </reference>
    <reference name="product.info">
        <block type="catalog/product_new" name="product_list_popular" alias="product_list_popular" template="catalog/product/product_list_popular.phtml">
            <action method="addPriceBlockType">
                <type>bundle</type>
                <block>bundle/catalog_product_price</block>
                <template>bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml</template>
            </action>
            <action method="setProductsCount">
                <count>8</count>
            </action>
        </block>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

And in your catalog/product/view.phtml file call child html

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_list_popular') ?>

Answer 2

I assume,you have trying to call product_list_popular call at view.phtml and as per as magento default behavior

catalog/product/view.phtml template's layout alias name is product.info.

As getChildHtml() only work whenever product_list_popular is child block of product.info.

and call <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_list_popular') ?> at view.phtml.

You need to understand the getChildHtml() concept at magento.

For you requirement,you need to change
<reference name="content">

to

<reference name="product.info">