Magento Special price products page

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Magento special price products page. We will be creating a new CMS page that will display all the Special or Sale products. We can make a product as a Special by filling it’s “Special From” and “Special To” price in “Prices” tab in Manage Products individual screen.

So let’s first create CMS Page, by going to CMS > Pages, which we will name it as “Specials”. In the Content tab of that Page, paste the below line of code:


{{block type="catalog/product_special" template="catalog/product/list.phtml" column_count="3" num_products="0"}}


and save the page.

- Here we are saying Magento to display Product List template by looking at our new block type file, Catalog/Product/Block/Special.php. So let’s create this file, Special.php in local/Mage/Catalog/Product/Block/ directory. You will have to create this directory path if it’s not already there.



<?php
class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_Special extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List
{
protected function _getProductCollection()
{
if (is_null($this->_productCollection)) {
$categoryID = $this->getCategoryId();
if($categoryID)
{
$category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
$category->load($categoryID); // this is category id
$collection = $category->getProductCollection();
} else
{
$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
}

$todayDate = date('m/d/y');
$tomorrow = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d')+1, date('y'));
$tomorrowDate = date('m/d/y', $tomorrow);

Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->prepareProductCollection($collection);
$collection->addAttributeToSort('created_at', 'desc');
$collection->addStoreFilter();

$collection->addAttributeToFilter('special_from_date', array('date' => true, 'to' => $todayDate))
->addAttributeToFilter('special_to_date', array('or'=> array(
0 => array('date' => true, 'from' => $tomorrowDate),
1 => array('is' => new Zend_Db_Expr('null')))
), 'left');


$numProducts = $this->getNumProducts() ? $this->getNumProducts() : 0;
$collection->setPage(1, $numProducts)->load();

$this->_productCollection = $collection;
}
return $this->_productCollection;
}
}