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

I got the Code of User:clockworkgeek , but here is some issue and correct code is as follow, it work and thanks clockworkgeek.

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

You Also writeenter code here or solve this issue by modify as

$this->getLoadedProductCollection()->clear();
$_productCollection = $this->getLoadedProductCollection();

Thanks, If it help you then comment.