The Magento Expert

Redirecting to any page from a template (phtml)

Mex — Wed, 14 May 2014 08:13:11 +0000

Use the code below to redirect to any page from a Magento template (phtml) file. In this case, it is a redirect to the home page.

Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()->setRedirect(Mage::getBaseUrl());

Changing the category page column count programmatically

Mex — Mon, 05 May 2014 09:37:45 +0000

Add the following code to your themes catalog\product\list.phtml file. It will change the column count to 2.

$this->setColumnCount(2);

Getting a blocks HTML in a template (phtml)

Mex — Mon, 05 May 2014 08:39:33 +0000

The below code shows how to echo the HTML of a block with the id ‘my_block’.

echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('my_block')->toHtml();

Sending parameters to a static block

Mex — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:29:15 +0000

You have to use so called filters to send parameters to a static block from a template for example. Lets take a look at the following code:

Thats the static Magento block:


    konfigurieren

We want to send attributset_name and product_id dynamically to the block. Add the following code to a template for example:

$block = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('block_name');
$variables = array();
$variables['product_id'] = 123;
$variables['attributset_name'] = 'whatever';
                       
$filter = Mage::getModel('core/email_template_filter');
$filter->setVariables($variables);

// This will now echo the blocks HTML with the values from the passed parameters.
echo $filter->filter($block->toHtml());

Adding the message block to a template (phtml)

admin — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:39:22 +0000

If you want to show the Magento messages (success, error, …) in your template file, add the following code the top of your template:

getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml() ?>