Randomise Latest Product

[keat]

My boss wants the homepage to include all latest products, which is straight forward enough.

However, I've complained that it looks diluted, cluttered and quite frankly amateurish.

Is there a way to maybe display only 6 latest products, but have these appear randomly.

I found a thread whereby the OP achieved this with a mod in includes/content/index.inc.php, but this was for V3.

In V6 I'm guessing its in cubecart.class.php ??

 

if ($GLOBALS['config']->get('config', 'catalogue_latest_products')) {
            $latestProducts = $GLOBALS['db']->select('CubeCart_inventory', false, $where, array('date_added' => 'DESC', 'product_id' => 'DESC'), (int)$GLOBALS['config']->get('config', 'catalogue_latest_products_count'));
            if ($latestProducts) {
                foreach ($latestProducts as $product) {
                    $category_data = $GLOBALS['catalogue']->getCategoryStatusByProductID($product['product_id']);
                    $category_status = false;
                    if (is_array($category_data)) {
                        foreach ($category_data as $trash => $data) {
                            if ($data['status'] == 1) {
                                $category_status = true;

 

Rather than a full blown mod, could this be achieved with a small code change?

[havenswift-hosting]

You can very easily achieve that using one part of our Enhanced Sorting plugin https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/plugins/enhanced-sorting which allows you to choose exactly which products you want to display and in what order.  Which products are chosen in what order can easily be changed by a simple drag and drop so can be changed whenever you want

In addition you will get a lot of other sorting functionality that comes with the plugin

Ian

[keat]

I found this which I'm toying with.

 

 

in classes/cubecart.class.php changing

$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('LATEST_PRODUCTS', $products);

To:
$lp_rand_keys = array_rand($products, 6); // Make sure there are 3 or more 'featured' products
foreach ($lp_rand_keys as $rand_key) $lp_rand_products[$rand_key] = $products[$rand_key];
$products = $lp_rand_products;
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('LATEST_PRODUCTS', $products);

 

Seems to do exactly what I wanted to achieve, now I just need to demo this to the team.

What's betting they make me roll back ??