Block new products sorted by add_date not by ID

[hurraken]

Hello,

I'd like to know if there's a way to display the items of the new products block by add date DESC iso ID.

Thank you for your (fast) replies.

Regards.

[MrBaseball34]

Change this code in blocknewproducts.php:

$newProducts = Product::getNewProducts(intval($params['cookie']->id_lang), 0, Configuration::get('NEW_PRODUCTS_NBR'));

to this:

$newProducts = Product::getNewProducts(intval($params['cookie']->id_lang), 0, Configuration::get('NEW_PRODUCTS_NBR'), false, 'date_add', 'DESC');

Now, while I was going to post the code above, I found this. In Product::getNewProducts(), I see this code:

if (empty($orderBy) || $orderBy == 'position') $orderBy = 'date_add';
       if (empty($orderWay)) $orderWay = 'DESC';

Which leads me to think that it defaults to date_add DESC.

How is yours coming up, anyway? What version of PS are you using?

[hurraken]

Hello MrBaseball34,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I made a mistake, i use HomeNewProducts from Prestacrea :

The code is this one :

   function hookHome($params)
   {
   global $smarty, $cookie;

     $category = new Category(1);
     $nb = intval(Configuration::get('HOME_NEW_PRODUCTS_NBR'));
   $rand = intval(Configuration::get('HOME_NEW_PRODUCTS_RANDOM'));
   if ($rand == 1) {
     $products = Product::getNewProducts(intval($cookie->id_lang), 0, $nb); 
   if ( $products )
   {
   shuffle($products);
   array_splice($products, ($nb ? $nb : 10));
   }
   }
   else 
   {
     $products = Product::getNewProducts(intval($cookie->id_lang), NULL - 0, (intval($nb ? $nb : 4)), false, NULL, NULL);
   }        

I'm using Pretsashop 1.3.7

Best regards

[MrBaseball34]

Here's what this code tells me:

function hookHome($params) {
 global $smarty, $cookie;
 $category = new Category(1);

Get configuration parameters:

 $nb = intval(Configuration::get('HOME_NEW_PRODUCTS_NBR'));
 $rand = intval(Configuration::get('HOME_NEW_PRODUCTS_RANDOM'));

If you want random new products, get the list of new products and
shuffle them in a random order.

 if ($rand == 1) {
   $products = Product::getNewProducts(intval($cookie->id_lang), 0, $nb); 
   if ( $products ) {
     shuffle($products);
     array_splice($products, ($nb ? $nb : 10));
   }

otherwise, get the regular list of products in date_add DESC order.

 } else {
   $products = Product::getNewProducts(intval($cookie->id_lang), NULL - 0, (intval($nb ? $nb : 4)), false, NULL, NULL);
 } 
}

So, all you have to do is set the HOME_NEW_PRODUCTS_RANDOM to 0 in ps_configuration to make the items come out
in the order you want. It is probably a configuration parameter in the module that you are
using.

[cammo]

Do Prestacrea make a module to randomize the New Products Block?
Or is there another solution? I'd like the New Products block to randomly show a different product on page load rather than the same one all the time!

Or even better would be a JQuery sliding block to cycle through a few new products..
Any suggestions?