magento limiting number of returned items in product collection call

Question

Im trying to limit the number of returned results manually in a copy of the list.phtml template, but its turning out to be alot harder than I anticipated.

Ive tried man

Answer 1

A quick way is with this method I recently discovered. You can even use it directly in the template.

$_productCollection = clone $this->getLoadedProductCollection();
$_productCollection->clear()
                   ->setPageSize(3)
                   ->load();