How to show related products in product view page with magento?

Question

I want to show related products in product view page after short description. I added the below code in app/design/frontend/default/your_theme/layout/catalog.xml page

<block type="catalog/product_list_related" name="catalog.product.related" as="related" template="catalog/product/list/related.phtml"/> `under <reference name="content">` section.

and comment the below code

 <reference name="right">
            <block type="catalog/product_list_related" name="catalog.product.related" before="-" template="catalog/product/list/related.phtml"/>
        </reference>

after that i made one related.phtml page and put it in app/design/frontend/default/your_theme/template/catalod/product/list/section. and call this related.phtml page in app/design/frontend/default/your_theme/template/catalod/product/view.phtml page by writing this code <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('related'); ?>.also cache is cleared.then also it is unable to call the page If anyone knows this,please help me out. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi i have custom code's to get the related products and you can add this code where you want to show the related products

<?php
foreach ($_product->getRelatedLinkCollection() as $link) {
$dats= $link->getLinkedProductId();
}
if($dats)
{
?>
<div class="block block-related">
<div class="block-title">
<strong><span><?php echo $this->__('Related Products') ?></span></strong>
</div>
<div class="block-content">
<ol class="mini-products-list" id="block-related">
<?php $bk=1;
foreach ($_product->getRelatedLinkCollection() as $link) {
if($bk=='4'){ break; }
else{
$relatedData[$link->getLinkedProductId()]['position'] = $link->getPosition();
$itsProducts[] = $link->getLinkedProductId();

$model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product') ;//getting product model

$_product = $model->load($link->getLinkedProductId()); 
//getting product object for particular product id

//echo $_product->getShortDescription(); //product's short description
//echo $_product->getDescription(); // product's long description
//echo $_product->getName(); //product name
//echo $_product->getPrice(); //product's regular Price
//echo $_product->getSpecialPrice(); //product's special Price
//echo $_product->getProductUrl(); //product url
//echo $_product->getImageUrl(); //product's image url
//echo $_product->getSmallImageUrl(); //product's small image url
//echo $_product->getThumbnailUrl(); //product's thumbnail image url  ?>

<li class="item">
<div class="product">
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl(); ?>">
<img src="<?php echo $_product->getImageUrl(); ?>"
width="110" height="110" alt="1"/>    </a>
<div class="product-details">
<h2 class="product-name-related">
<a title="<?php echo $_product->getName(); ?>"href="
<?php echo  $_product->getProductUrl(); ?>">
<?php echo $_product->getName(); ?></a><div class="price-box">
<?php echo '$'.number_format($_product->getPrice(),2); ?></div></h2>
<button class="button btn-cart" onclick="setLocation('
<?php echo  Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getAddUrl($_product); ?>')"
title="Add to  Cart" type="button"><span><span>Add to Cart</span></span></button>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<?php
$bk++;
}
}    
?>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
?>

Answer 2

Remove the reference to the block related_products from view.phtml

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

Then add this to anywhere you want in view.phtml

<?php echo $this->getBlockHtml('catalog.product.related'); ?>