I want to show a category product in a CMS page. For that process I have to insert the product list of a particular category inside a CMS page, to do it from backend I add a static block like this
{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" category_id="4" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}} How can I do the same thing inside phtml?
To do the same from phtml file, use:
<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock("catalog/product_list") ->setCategoryId(4)->setTemplate("catalog/product/list.phtml")->toHtml();?> This can be easily achieved through xml
<reference name="content"> <block type="catalog/product_list" name="home" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"> <!-- Product List View --> <action method="setCategoryId"><category_id>40</category_id></action> <block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml"> <block type="page/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager"/> </block> <action method="setToolbarBlockName"><name>product_list_toolbar</name></action> </block> Just replace category id with your category id.
