Modify blocknewproducts to show products current category

[hixamail]

Hi, I'm trying to show a block on the category page that lists all products from the current category.

 

I have tried to adapt the blocknewproducts module but don't know where to start.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[rocky]

It should be pretty easy to get all the products from the current category. Try the following:

$products = array();
$category = new Category((int)Tools::getValue('id_category'));

if (Validate::isLoadedObject($category)) {
    $products = $category->getProducts($this->context->language->id, 0, 1000, 'position', 'asc');
}

This will get the first 1000 products from the current category and sort them by position. You can change 1000 to any number that's greater than the maximum number of products you have in a category. Note that loading too many products will cause the page to load slowly or even crash, so choose a number carefully.