Custom Yes/No Product Attribute Works on Product Page but Not on Category Page

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I have a yes/no attribute used in product to output some text and it works fine:

<?php if ($_product->getAttributeText('sale_text') == "Yes"): ?>
    <?php 
        $day = strtotime('friday this week'); 
        echo " - On Sale Through " . date('m/d/Y', $day); 
    ?>
<?php endif; ?>

However, when outputting yes/no attribute label on the category page (list.phtml) with the following code, I'm getting a "No" for all products even though I have several products set as "Yes":

<?php echo $_product->getAttributeText('sale_text'); ?>

Any idea what the issue is and how to fix?

Best Answer

This is because your custom attribute has not been enabled to display in the category page. Go to Admin > Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes and select the attribute. Then set the option for "Used in Product Listing" equal to Yes:

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Remove the image per product

The product grid is defined here:

/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml

If you change this template, copy it to your personal theme

/app/design/frontend/mypackage/<mytheme I recommend default>/template/catalog/product/list.phtml

then change it. Just search for the <imgin the code, e.g. <img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(135); ?>" width="135" height="135" alt="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" /> in version 1.7.0.2

Add something before the products

You can define in the backend for every category a cms_block to be shown on the category page.

The category page is defined here:

/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/category/view.phtml

as with the product list, if you want to change anything you want to copy this template to your own theme.

You can see at the end of the template, that the cms block is inserted:

<?php if($this->isContentMode()): ?>
    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>

<?php elseif($this->isMixedMode()): ?>
    <?php echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() ?>
    <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?>

<?php else: ?>
    <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml() ?>
<?php endif; ?>

You can change here a lot, e.g. put the block after the product listing, if you want this.

The CMS-Block must be filled and created in the backend under CMS > CMS Blocks. Which block is used for which category is defined at the category: Catalog > Manage Categories > Click on one Category > Content(?)

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