Comments on: Magento product : display new product icon on product list

By: Kamil Węgrzynowicz

Kamil Węgrzynowicz — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:58:14 +0000

You don't have to rewrite anything. And you really shouldn't put any code directly in Magento core. To add any attribute to the product collection just modify config.xml of any module or create XMl in app/etc/modules directory (name doesn't matter, because all XML files in this directory are merged by Magento) and put this code: And that's it! No rewrite needed, just add it via XML

By: Naujasdizainas

Naujasdizainas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:54:48 +0000

Hi,
In list.phtml file top of file put this
_productCollection
->addAttributeToSelect(‘news_from_date’)
->addAttributeToSelect(‘news_to_date’);
?>

and in place of example
after
htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>
place you code
getData(‘news_from_date’),0,10);
$newsTo= substr($_product->getData(‘news_to_date’),0,10);
if ($now>=$newsFrom && $now NEW PRODUCT!

By: jen

jen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:21:01 +0000

I still cannot get this to work. Im a little bit of a novice when it comes to coding, can you explain where to put the coding? and where to put this part:
echo (isProductNew($_product)) ? ‘New !’ : ”;

sorry, im so confused!

By: mfauveau

mfauveau — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:26:29 +0000

Turns out WordPress screwed up the code… let me try again :
function isProductNew($product) {
$todayDate = Mage::app()->getLocale()->date()->toString(Varien_Date::DATETIME_INTERNAL_FORMAT);
if($todayDate >= $product->getData(‘news_from_date’) && $todayDate <= $product->getData(‘news_to_date’))
{
return TRUE;
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
}

By: mfauveau

mfauveau — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:20:57 +0000

You should not modify core Magento files. There is a way to do that whithout touching it.

In your /frontend/[you_template]/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml add the following code to the top of the file :

–

$this->addAttribute(‘news_from_date’);
$this->addAttribute(‘news_to_date’);
function isProductNew($product) {
$todayDate = Mage::app()->getLocale()->date()->toString(Varien_Date::DATETIME_INTERNAL_FORMAT);
$newsFrom = $product->getData(‘news_from_date’);
if($todayDate >= $product->getData(‘news_from_date’) && $todayDate getData(‘news_to_date’))
{
return TRUE;
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
}

–

Now you can test if the product is new by calling the function like :

–

echo (isProductNew($_product)) ? ‘New !’ : ”;

–

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:18:51 +0000

where does i put this ?
i didn’t find ?

$now = date(”Y-m-d”);
$newsFrom= substr($_product->getData(’news_from_date’),0,10);
$newsTo= substr($_product->getData(’news_to_date’),0,10);
if ($now>=$newsFrom && $now NEW PRODUCT!

By: sibble

sibble — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:15:29 +0000

Had my doubts at first reading previous comment. I had to try it for myself, and it indeed does work.

Two things:
1) If you’re copy/pasting the code, make sure to check the quote and double quote characters, may not be correct encoding.

2) In your list.phtml, make sure your putting the logic in the correct listing type. List is at the top, Grid is at the bottom. Obviously you won’t see any changes if you put the code in the List style type section and your store is displaying product as a Grid type.

Thanks for the code!

By: nikl

nikl — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:51:03 +0000

Which versions was this tested with? I cant get it to work wih 1.3.2! Where do I have to enter the code in the template file list.phtml? No matter where I enter it, the page will not be displayed or I will be getting an error message.