Magento: Show recently added products homepage - magento

Question

I want show the last 8 products that I've added on the homepage. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Using this code snippet for Block File form the previous answer will give a more well structured collection, because:
Filter product by status Enabled
Filter product by visibility (simple products of configurable (which are by default 'Not Visible Individually') will not show in this collection)
$_productCollection = Mage::getModel("catalog/product")
->getCollection()
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4)
->addAttributeToFilter(
'status',
array('eq' => Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Status::STATUS_ENABLED)
);

Answer 2

<b> To show recently added products,</b>
1. Create Block file and template file (phtml)
2. To show in homepage go to admin panel. Click on CMS->Pages->Homepage(Homepage will be set based on your theme). Inside that Click on Design tab and add the below code:
<reference name="content">
<block type="rileytheme/recentproducts" name="recentproducts_recentproducts" template="recentproducts/recentproducts.phtml"></block>
<block type="cms/block" name="myelement"><action method="setBlockId"<block_id>homepage_block</block_id></action></block>
</reference>
Block File:
//class Namespace_Module_Block_Filename
class MGS_Rileytheme_Block_Recentproducts extends Mage_Core_Block_Template {
public function getRecentProducts() { <br/>
$products = Mage::getModel("catalog/product")
->getCollection()
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->setOrder('entity_id', 'DESC')
->setPageSize(5); //set page size as your wish
return $products;
}
View File (phtml):
<?php $products = $this->getRecentProducts(); ?>
<?php shuffle($products); ?>
<div class="container">
<div class="box recently" style="padding-left:15px; padding-right:15px;">
<h1 class="text-center fw400 text-red"><?php echo $this->__('Recent Products') ?></h3>
<div class="listing-type-grid catalog-listing">
<?php $_collectionSize = count($products) ?>
<?php $i=0; foreach ($products as $_res): ?>
<?php $_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_res->getId()); ?>
<?php if ($i++%3==0): ?><tr><?php endif ?>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3 prod-list">
<div class="grid_list">
<div class="product">
<div class="image-container">
<?php if($_product->getProductLabel()): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>">
<span class="onsale <?php echo strtolower($_product->getAttributeText('product_label')) ?>"><?php echo $_product->getAttributeText('product_label') ?></span>
</a>
<?php endif ?>
<img alt="" class="img-responsive" src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(800,800); ?>">
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('View detail')?>" class="icon-left icon-top ">
<i class="fa fa-eye"></i>
</a>
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl()?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart')?>" class="icon-right icon-top">
<i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i>
</a>
<?php if($this->helper('wishlist')->isAllow()): ?>
<!--<a class="icon-left ves-boxcolor icon-bottom" href="<?php echo $this->helper('wishlist')->getAddUrl($_product)?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to wishlist')?>">
<i class="fa fa-heart"></i>
</a>-->
<?php endif;?>
<?php if($this->getAddToCompareUrl($_product)): ?>
<!--<a class="icon-right boxcolor icon-bottom" href="<?php echo $this->getAddToCompareUrl($_product)?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to compare')?>">
<i class="fa fa-retweet"></i>
</a>-->
<?php endif;?>
</div>
<!--<div class="media-productlist">
<a href="<?php // echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php // echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">
<img class="product-image" src="<?php // echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image');?>" alt="<?php // echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>" />
</a>
</div>-->
<div class="product-list-data">
<a class="product-name" href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>)"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?></a>
<div class="product-list-data-inner">
<div class="cart-item-price">
<?php $_product->getPrice();?>
<span class="price"><?php echo $_formattedActualPrice = Mage::helper('core')->currency($_product->getPrice(),true,false);?></span>
</div>
<div class="cart-item-stars">
<div class="rating-shop-item">
<?php if($_product->getRatingSummary()): ?>
<?php echo $this->getReviewsSummaryHtml($_product) ?>
<?php else:?>
<span class="star"></span>
<span class="star"></span>
<span class="star"></span>
<span class="star"></span>
<span class="star"></span>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div class="space10"></div>
</div>
<div class="book-now-btn">
<button onclick="setLocation('<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>')" title="<?php echo $this->__('Book Now') ?>" type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm"><?php echo $this->__('Book Now') ?></button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php echo $this->getReviewsSummaryHtml($_product, 'short') ?>
<?php if ($i%3==0 && $i!=$_collectionSize): ?></tr><?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php for($i;$i%3!=0;$i++): ?>
<td class="empty-product"> </td>
<?php endfor ?>
<?php if ($i%3==0): ?> <?php endif ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>