Magento2 – Get Random Products from Category

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I have a class that returns 3 products from a category, these products are ordered by entity id and always returns the same 3 products from category X. I want to randomise them. in magento 1 you could do something like $collection->getSelect()->order('RAND()');, but this does not work in magento 2 anymore.

This is code that gets 3 products from category X.

protected $categoryFactory;

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Catalog\Model\CategoryFactory $categoryFactory
)
{
    $this->categoryFactory = $categoryFactory;
}


public function getCategory($id)
{
    $category = $this->categoryFactory->create()->load($id);
    return $category;
}

public function getProductsCollection($id)
{
    $r = array();
    $products = $this
        ->getCategory($id)
        ->getProductCollection()
        ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
        ->setPageSize(3)
        ->getItems();


    foreach ($products as $product) {
        $r[] = $product->getData();
    }
    return $r;
}

Best Answer

I suggest you use the orderRand() method.

You can do:

$productsCol = $this
        ->getCategory($id)
        ->getProductCollection()
        ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
        ->setPageSize(3);

$productsCol->getSelect()->orderRand();

$products = $productsCol->getItems();
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