Magento – how to display recently viewed products list on product details page – magento

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I have used mobileshoppe theme for magento and trying to display recently viewed product list at product details page but some how its not working…

Added code below at catalog.xml

<catalog_product_view translate="label">
<reference name="content">
<block type="reports/product_viewed" name="product.recently.viewed" as="product_recently_viewed" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml"/>
</reference>
</catalog_product_view>

and below code at app\design\frontend\default\mobileshoppe\template\catalog\product\ view.phtml

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_recently_viewed') ?>

I have tried the same with default theme and its also not working, can any one help me to figure out this issue ?

Thanks…

Best Answer

On the the product detail template (view.phtml) you have to be more specific in the xml where you want to place the block. See the example below using local.xml in the theme layout directory (app/design/frontend/your package/your theme/layout/local.xml) to insert the block. Here's an example from a site I'm working on. Ironically we are having problems with it displaying consistently, which I'm trying to figure out right now, but this is working most of the time! Try getting more specific in your catalog.xml and it should work. The xml is in local.xml, the echo is in catalog/product/view.phtml 

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('recently_viewed') ?>

<catalog_product_view> 
<reference name="content"> 
    <reference name="product.info">
        <block type="reports/product_viewed" name="left.reports.product.viewed" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml" as="recently_viewed" />
    </reference>
</reference>

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