Magento – How to create a static block which displays all categories

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I want to create a static block which displays all of my categories and displays them in a list. I don't need an image and I don't need the sub categories.

Then I want to add this block to my home page.

Best Answer

Create one .phtml file inside app/design/frontend/your_theme/default/template/catalog lets name it as homecategories.phtml and paste this code into it

  <!-- Categories display start -->
        <div class="home_categories">
              <ul>
                   <?php $helper = $this->helper('catalog/category') ?>
                 <?php foreach ($helper->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
                 <li>
                     <a href="<?php echo Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->setData($_category->getData())->getUrl(); ?>" title="<?php echo $_category->getName() ?>"><?php echo $_category->getName() ?></a>
                 </li>
                 <?php endforeach ?>
              </ul>

        </div>
         <?php echo $this->getChildHtml() ?>

        <!-- Categories display end -->

now create a static block lets name it as homecategories id as home_categories and now place this code into content of that block {{block type="core/template" template="catalog/homecategories.phtml"}} now call this static block in your cms.xml in this way

<block type="cms/block" name="homecategories">
   <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>home_categories</block_id></action>
</block>

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Add a static block into a static block:

{{block type="cms/block" block_id="your_second_block_id"}}

Magento – How to create Static block that shows an random image

Create a template file.
Let's call it random.phtml.
Put it in app/design/frontend/base/default/template/random/random.phtml.

The contents should look something like this:

<?php 
$images = array('img1.png', 'img2.png', ....);
shuffle($images);
$image = $images[0];
$url = Mage::getBaseUrl('media').'path/to/folder/'.$image;  
?>
<img src="<?php echo $url?>" alt="" />

make sure you put all your images in media/path/to/folder. (feel free to change the name of the folder).

Now you can use this in 3 ways.

Either inside a static block:

{{block type="core/template" template="random/random.phtml"}}

either in any other template:

$block = Mage::app()->getLayout()->createBlock('core/template')->setTemplate('random/random.phtml');
$html = $block->toHtml();
echo $html;

either in a layout file:

<reference name="left"><!-- not necessarily left. can be right, content, header... -->
    <block type="core/template" template="random/random.phtml" name="random-image" as="random-image" />
</reference>

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