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I'm trying to display related products in the product view page. I created a collection of them but when i try to fetch them, the getName() method renders the correct name but getProductUrl() renders the url of the parent product. Here is my code:

  $categoryId = array_shift($_product->getCategoryIds());
  $related_prods = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
                ->getCollection()
                ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
                ->addUrlRewrite($categoryId)
                ->addAttributeToFilter('entity_id',array('in'=>$_product->getRelatedProductIds()))->load();
  <div>
  <?php foreach($related_prods as $related){ ?>
  <a href="<?php  $this->getUrl('books').$related->getUrlPath()."<br />";?>"><?php echo $related->getName();?></a>
  <?php } ?>
  </div>

Thanks in advance.

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you have to load the product to get product url

 $categoryId = array_shift($_product->getCategoryIds());
      $related_prods = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
                    ->getCollection()
                    ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
                    ->addUrlRewrite($categoryId)
                    ->addAttributeToFilter('entity_id',array('in'=>$_product->getRelatedProductIds()))->load();
      <div>
      <?php foreach($related_prods as $related){ 
    $related=Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($related->getId());
    ?>
      <a href="<?php  echo $this->getUrl('books').$related->getUrlPath()."<br />";?>"><?php echo $related->getName();?></a>
      <?php } ?>
      </div>
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  • I have another question: I want to move this code from my product (view.phtml) and call it from model/helper(?). What is the best approach and how to call my function inside view.phtml ? – mockingbid Nov 12 '15 at 10:59
  • did you create a module for that? add this function in your helper and get the collection Mage::helper('book')->urfunction(); – Qaisar Satti Nov 12 '15 at 11:02
  • No, i was thinking of using the catalog module, i'm just testing in a sample-data installation to get a sense of it. – mockingbid Nov 12 '15 at 11:06
  • then don't change in core module. that my suggestion for testing purpose get collection in view directly. – Qaisar Satti Nov 12 '15 at 11:08
  • copy model file in from code/mage to core/local and make changes there it is best approach. – Qaisar Satti Nov 12 '15 at 11:09
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you forgot an echo in this line:

<a href="<?php  $this->getUrl('books').$related->getUrlPath()."<br />";?>"><?php echo $related->getName();?></a>

it should be

<a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl('books').$related->getUrlPath()."<br />";?>"><?php echo $related->getName();?></a>

Side note... you should not generate the url like this <?php echo $this->getUrl('books').$related->getUrlPath()."<br />"

use $related->getProductUrl()

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