Morning Guys and Girls,

Today we will learn how to bring in related product data into the View.phtml or product colum or middle column.

To see a demo of this have a look at this page:

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Ready? Let’s do it!

<?php foreach ($_product->getRelatedProducts() as $related_product) {
 if (sizeof($_product->getRelatedProducts())>0):
 ?>
 <?php

$ids[] = $related_product->getId();

echo $relatedproduct->getName(); ?>

That will get you related products. However, I actually extended it quite a bit more, in the sense that my related products are downloadable products, and I needed to get the sample link from these products. The complete code that I used therefor looks like this:

<?php $i = 1; ?>
 <?php foreach ($_product->getRelatedProducts() as $related_product) {
 if (sizeof($_product->getRelatedProducts())>0):
 ?>
 <?php
 $ids[] = $related_product->getId();

 //Download product samples code   Ninja Go!!
 $_myprodsamples = Mage::getModel('downloadable/sample');
 $_mySampleCollection = $_myprodsamples->getCollection()->addProductToFilter($related_product->getId());

 $relatedproduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
 $relatedproduct->load($related_product->getId());

 if (sizeof($_mySampleCollection)>0):
 ?>

 <?php
 foreach ($_mySampleCollection as $_sample) {
 //$_samplelink = $this->getUrl('downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/'.$_sample->getId());
 $_samplelink = Mage::getModel('downloadable/sample')->load($_sample->getId())->getUrl();
 ?>
 <span><?php echo $i++; ?><?php echo $this->__('. ') ?><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="player1.sendEvent('STOP'); player1.sendEvent('LOAD', {'image':'<?php echo $_product->getImageUrl(); ?>', 'file':'<?php echo $_samplelink ?>', 'provider':'sound', 'buffer':0, 'autostart':true});" title="Click to play <?php echo $relatedproduct->getName(); ?>"><?php echo $relatedproduct->getName(); ?></a></span>
 <?php } ?>
 <?php /*endforeach;*/ ?>

 <?php endif; ?>

 <?php //Mage::Helper('debug')->log($_sample) ?>
 <?php endif; ?>
 <?php } ?>
 <?php /*endforeach;*/ ?>

Beer time!
There you have it, if you don’t come right, use the contact form to contact me, and I will set this up for you.

Have a wonderful day!

Winston