How to get products from a particular category in magento ecommerce

Question

I\'d like to get a list of random products from the same category as the current product for displaying within the product view - so far all I\'ve dug up is

Magento

Answer 1

This code will helps you to get products from category id 2. And also here uses a template file list_home.phtml for the product listing.

 echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock("catalog/product_list")
    ->setCategoryId(2)->setTemplate("catalog/product/list_home.phtml")->toHtml();

list_home.phtml

getChild('toolbar')->setCurrentMode('list'); //uses list mode
$_productCollection = $this->getLoadedProductCollection();
$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
    ?>

    count()): ?>
        
__('There are no products matching the selection.') ?>
    

--use code for listing---